Elizabeth Fairfax Cookbook

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  To Make the Fine Great Cake

  A recipe for a spiced cake, made with cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, and currants, glazed and finished with orange or lemon peel.
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  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.
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  To Make ye york Ginger Bread

  A recipe for gingerbread using claret wine, ginger, cinnamon, mace, cloves, Jamaica pepper (allspice), sanders (sandalwood), and bread crumbs.
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  Chesecakes with out Curd

  A recipe for making cheesecake.
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  To Make Marow Pudens

  Describes a recipe for a boiled "marrow pudens," or marrow pudding, using bone marrow, dried fruits, rosewater, and spices.
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  to Make ye[the] Queens kakes

  A recipe for making small cakes with currants and spices.
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  Sack Puding [Pudding] my Lady Abergavenry

  A recipe for making pudding
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  To Make Biskets ye [the] Lady Ingrams way

  A recipe for baking biscuits with eggs, rose water, sugar, flour, and coriander seeds.
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  To Make Princes Biskets [Prince Biscuits]

  A recipe for a pastry using eggs, sugar, flour, and caraway seeds, baked in small "coffins," or boxes/tins.
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  To Make ye Seed Cake Mrs Malbery

  Recipe for making seed cake, using caraway comfits.
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  Marchpaine Cakes

  Recipe for making "marchpaine cakes," or marzipan cakes, using sugar, almonds, and rose water.
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  To Ice a Cake

  A recipe for making icing, and directions for icing a cake.
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  To Make A Raire Great Cake

  A recipe for making a great cake