Fairfax-Spencer Family Receipt Book

Items

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  To Make Lemon [Gelee]

  A recipe to make a lemon drink by boiling lemon juice, peel, eggs, and sugar together.
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  Mrs Listers Purging Drink for ye Kings Evell

  A recipe for treatment of scrofula ("King's Evil"), using coriander and cardamom seeds, sweet fennel, senna, rhubarb, mechoacan, and sweetened with licorice.
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  Phistillia [fistula] watter [water] which will keep the pipe from growing & desolve [dissolve] ye Lump that is hard

  Describes a recipe for "fistula water," a remedy for treating fistulas using alum, zinc sulfate ("white vitriol"), and bole armeniac (a kind of clay uses as a styptic).
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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 Marow Pudens [Marrow Pudding]

  Describes a recipe for a boiled "marrow pudens," or marrow pudding, using bone marrow, dried fruits, rosewater, and spices.
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  To Make a Cabage Puding

  A recipe for a "cabbage pudding," using minced veal, beef fat, herbs and spices, and wrapped in cabbage leaves before boiling.
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  To Make a Quakeing Puding [Pudding]

  A recipe for a sweet steamed pudding (dessert) with nutmeg, covered with blanched almonds and topped with a mix of butter, sack (a fortified white wine), and sugar.
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  Cock Ale

  A recipe for making ale with rooster meat (starts with ale that has already been brewed, as well as sack, a type of white wine).