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Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book
About
Project Launch and 18th Century British Baking Challenge
Acknowledgements and Contributors
Browse Recipes
Food
Breads and Baked Goods
Meat-based Dishes
Vegetable-based dishes
Dairy and Cheeses
Preserving, Pickling, Fermenting
Sauces and Condiments
Sweets and Desserts
Drinks
Alcoholic Drinks
Health Waters
Health and Medicine
Health Waters
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Browse Ingredients & Methods
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Who Was Elizabeth Fairfax?
Cookbooks as a Window Into the Household
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Sore Brests . . . Bruised Blood to bring a way . . .
A poultice for treating sore breasts made of linseed oil and beeswax.
Sirope [syrup] of oranges or Lemons
A method for making syrup by dissolving sugar in orange or lemon juice and boiling with water.
Sinemon [cinnamon] Water
A process for making a spiced brandy with cinnamon.
Sider [cider] Royall
A process for making a sweetened, fortified cider using brown sugar and spirits.
Sack Puding [Pudding] my Lady Abergavenry
A recipe for making pudding
Receipt for Preserving Eggs. G : W.
This recipe gives instructions for preserving eggs using quicklime.
Quinsey
A treatment for the condition known as quinsy/quinsey, a potentially life-threatening complication from tonsillitis.
Powder for Convulsion fits which was never known to fail, when taken in time
A remedy for treating convulsions (possibly epileptic seizures?) using lady's smock flowers, powdered and distilled in water.
Potatoe [potato] Bread
A recipe for bread made with boiled, sieved potatoes and wheat flour.
Plague Water to Make
Phistillia [fistula] watter [water] which will keep the pipe from growing & desolve [dissolve] ye Lump that is hard
Describes a recipe for "fistula water," a remedy for treating fistulas using alum, zinc sulfate ("white vitriol"), and bole armeniac (a kind of clay uses as a styptic).
Phiseck and Surgery May be found here
A header for a section of the recipe book featuring medical and surgical remedies.
Patent granted to Mr. Wm Jayne of Sheffield...
A recipe for a preservative for eggs using quicklime, salt, and cream of tartar.
Paste for the thin Tarts
Orang Buter [orange butter]
A recipe for making orange butter.
o Make Duch Goaters
Napels bisket the beste
A recipe for making naples biscuits using almond flour and sweet cream.
My Unkle Bladen’s Balsom for Man of Horseflesh
A medicinal recipe using myrrh and aloe dissolved in alcohol.
My Mothers resept for Almond pufs
My Lady Plymoths Sack Poset [posset]
Describes a recipe for "sack posset," a kind of hot drink made with milk curdled with alcohol. This recipe uses sack, a kind of white wine.
My Lady Neviles orange Kakes [cakes]
A recipe for making a confection by mixing orange peel and fruit with boiled sugar.
My lady Nevels Surfit water
My Lady Nevels orange or lemon Kakes [cakes]
A recipe for a confection made by stewing orange peel and pulp with boiled sugar to make small cakes
My Lady N French Bread
My Grandmothers F: Sear Cloth
A recipe for an oil to be applied to clothes, made from red lead, white lead, bole armoniac (or Armenian bole, a type of clay), and olive oil.
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