Elizabeth Fairfax Cookbook

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  My Aunt [illegible] Seed [K]ake

  A recipe for making cake using caraway comfits, a sweetmeat preserved with sugar that includes a caraway seed.
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  To Make Ginger Bread Mrs Lister
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  to Make wigs ye[the], Lady Neviles way

  A recipe for making wigs, a bun/small cake.
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  To Make Puff Paist

  A recipe for making puff pastry (doesn't include the baking part).
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  Orang Buter

  A recipe for making orange butter.
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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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  Mrs Bushels Caraway Cake

  A recipe for making caraway cake using caraway comfits, a sweetmeat preserved with sugar that includes a caraway seed.
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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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  To Make My owne Chees Cakes

  A recipe to make cheese cake.
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  Chesecakes with out Curd

  A recipe for making cheesecake.
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  to Make ye[the] Queens kakes

  A recipe for making small cakes with currants and spices.
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  To Make French Breade

  A recipe for a french bread, using flour, milk, butter, salt, yeast, and vinegar, baked in loafs.
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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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  The Peper Cake will ceep 2 yrs

  A recipe for making a spice cake with a variety of spices and oranges.
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  To Make ye French friters

  A recipe for "French fritters" using flour, apples, orange flower water, and nutmeg, fried in fat.
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  To Make A Raire Great Cake

  A recipe for making a great cake