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Project Launch and 18th Century British Baking Challenge
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Breads and Baked Goods
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This Resept Good a Gainst infection
A cure for various illnesses made from a mixture of herbs, long peppers, ginger, nutmegs, aqua vitae, Venice treacle (Theriac), and the cure-all mithridate.
Mrs Fletwoods Surfeit water
For an ague for a child, if for a man a greater proporsion [proportion]
A remedy for fever (ague) using egg white mixed with spirits and peppercorns, to be consumed.
Aqua Mirabelis
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