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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
Household Goods
Browse Ingredients & Subjects
Research Topics
Who Was Elizabeth Fairfax?
Cookbooks as a Window Into the Household
Recipe Books & Women’s Knowledge
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To Procrere slepe
A recipe to fall asleep easier by placing a dormouse under the sleeper's head.
To make the weben [weapon] salve
A recipe for a healing salve made by mixing bacon fat and the blood of a wound on the weapon that caused the wound.
Stinging
A recipe to cure a venomous insect sting using sympathetic magic.
Cousen Bosvils resept for pain in the back
Remedy for back pain; calls for comfrey, clary sage, pith from the back leg bones of an ox, muscadine wine, eggs, and sugar. Also advises the consumption of crocus martis and rose conserves.
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