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Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book
About
Project Launch and 18th Century British Baking Challenge
Project History
Acknowledgements and Contributors
View the Original Manuscript
Bibliography
Contact
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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Research Topics
Who Was Elizabeth Fairfax?
Cookbooks as a Window Into the Household
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To Physic Children after the Small Pox
A remedy believed to treat children with smallpox using calomel (mercurous chloride), tartar emetic, "crab's-eyes" (a calcified stone found in crayfish) and sugar.
For the Gripes in Horses, approved by Dr. Kilvington
A remedy for treating horses using Daffy's elixir (a tincture possibly containing alcohol), laudanum, and almond or castor oil
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