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Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book
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White Quince Marmallete [marmalade]
A recipe for marmalade made by boiling quinces with sugar, set with pippin jelly (probably a fruit jelly)
White Pudens
A recipe for making white pudding, a savory pudding (appears that it may be related to Yorkshire Pudding).
When the Small Pox strik in again & the Party is in great dainger of death
Water Proof . – The following is the Chinese method for rendering cloth water-proof:
Wassel Cake
This recipe gives directions for making a "cake" of currants by mixing currants with milk. May be incomplete; title may actually refer to "Wasel" Cake.
Wakefield ginger bread
To wash any foul or Dead sore
To turn the Child right in Labour
A medicinal recipe for a paste to be used in childbirth, possibly using agrimony, to turn a breech birth.
To take the fire out of a Wound
To take away heat in the face
To take a pin: or web out of the Eye
To stop vomiting
To Still Mrs Spencer Spirets [spirits]
A process for making a distilled grain alcohol using malt.
To Stay the Bleeding of a vaine that is broken inwardly
To roste [roast] a Shoulder of Mutton in the Blood
A recipe for preparing mutton shoulder using sheep's blood and herbs
To renew wasted Kidneys
To Procrere slepe
To Preserve the strength of Sinemond
A method for preserving cinnamon bark by wrapping in linen cloth.
To preserve the Face from pittying
To preserve the Eyes from the Smallpose
To Pot Lobster
A recipe for cooking and preserving lobster in butter with onion and spices
To pickle Walnuts like mangoes
A method for pickling walnuts by steeping and stuffing with spices.
To pickle Eggs
A method for pickling eggs with vinegar and spices
To Pickle Cabbage
To pickele pidgions [pickle pigeons]
A recipe for boiled pigeon stuffed with herbs and spices and pickled with vinegar.
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