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About
Project Launch and 18th Century British Baking Challenge
Acknowledgements and Contributors
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
Household Goods
Browse Ingredients & Methods
Research Topics
Who Was Elizabeth Fairfax?
Cookbooks as a Window Into the Household
Recipe Books & Women’s Knowledge
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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)
Wakefield ginger bread
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.
To Make wigs the Lady Neviles way
A recipe for making wigs, a bun/small cake.
To Make unstilled Lemon Water
To Make the york Ginger Bread
A recipe for gingerbread using claret wine, ginger, cinnamon, mace, cloves, Jamaica pepper (allspice), sanders (sandalwood), and bread crumbs.
To Make the wine caled Necture [nectar]
Describes a process for creating a sweet wine by fermenting grapes with loaf sugar and lemon juice.
To Make the Seed Cake Mrs Malbery
Recipe for making seed cake, using caraway comfits.
to Make the Queens kakes
A recipe for making small cakes with currants and spices.
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.
To make the best Litele plombe Kakes [little plum cakes]
To Make Suger of Roses
A recipe for rose sugar made from red roses, lemon juice, and sugar.
To Make red Clear Cake
A recipe for making a small, clear confection by stewing currants and mixing the juice with boiled sugar syrup.
To Make Rasbery [raspberry] Clear Cake
A recipe for making a small, clear confection by stewing raspberries and mixing the juice with boiled sugar syrup.
To make quince Cakes
A recipe for making a confection by boiling quince fruit and dissolving them with sugar.
To Make Princes Biskets
A recipe for a pastry using eggs, sugar, flour, and caraway seeds, baked in small "coffins," or boxes/tins.
To Make Mrs Thomsons Kakes
To Make Mrs Fleetwoods Surfeit Watter
To Make Marow Pudens [Marrow Pudding]
Describes a recipe for a boiled "marrow pudens," or marrow pudding, using bone marrow, dried fruits, rosewater, and spices.
To Make Lemon Cheese Cakes Mrs Jane Willkinssons Resept
To Make Lemon Cakes
A recipe for making a small clear confection by scalding lemon juice with sugar, mixed with minced lemon peel.
To Make Lemon bisket [biscuit]
A recipe for baking lemon biscuits using flour, sugar, lemon peel, lemon juice, and eggs.
To Make Lemon [Gelee]
A recipe to make a lemon drink by boiling lemon juice, peel, eggs, and sugar together.
To Make Jumbels [jumbles]
A recipe for jumbles (similar to sugar cookies) using flour, sugar, eggs, caraway and coriander seeds.
To Make Ink
A method for making ink by steeping galls and iron sulfate in gum arabic, made shiny by the addition of sugar and sack wine.
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