Fairfax-Spencer Family Receipt Book

Items

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  My Aunt Flevils Seed Kake

  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 Liste[r]

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  To Make wigs the Lady Neviles way

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

  A recipe for making puff pastry dough
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  A Dutch Puding [pudding]

  A recipe for a baked Dutch pudding, using short paste (a pastry made with shortening or fat), eggs, and 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 the 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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  Chescakes [cheesecakes] with out Curd

  A recipe for making cheesecake.
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  to Make the Queens kakes

  A recipe for making small cakes with currants and spices.
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  Sack Puding [Pudding] my Lady Abergavenry

  A recipe for making pudding
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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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  Rie[Rye] Bread

  A recipe for rye bread using caraway seeds and musk, risen in a coffin/coffer.
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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 the Seed Cake Mrs Malbery

  Recipe for making seed cake, using caraway comfits.
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  Marchpaine Cakes

  Recipe for making "marchpaine cakes," or marzipan cakes, using sugar, almonds, and rose water.
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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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  The Wood Street Cake

  A recipe for a baked cake, using cinnamon, ginger, and currants.
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  To Make A Raire Great Cake

  A recipe for making a great cake
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  To Make a Caraway Kake [cake]

  A recipe to make a baked caraway cake, using caraway comfits.