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Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book
About
Project History
View the Original Manuscript
Acknowledgements and Contributors
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
Sugar
Search
Browse Recipes
Food
Breads and Baked Goods
Breads and Baked Goods
Napels bisket the beste
A recipe for making naples biscuits using almond flour and sweet cream.
Almond Pufs [puffs]
A recipe for a confection made with blanched pulverized almonds, orange blossom water, and sugar mixed with beaten egg whites (which may be similar to a meringue cookie).
Potatoe [potato] Bread
A recipe for bread made with boiled, sieved potatoes and wheat flour.
Crisp Pastes for Tarts
A recipe for pastry dough using sugar, flower, boiled cream, and butter. The recipe is possibly signed "HS".
Wakefield ginger bread [gingerbread]
A recipe for gingerbread using treacle, flour, orange peel, ginger, brandy, and sugar.
Her French bread
A recipe for French bread using flour, milk, water, and butter.
Friteres [fritters]
A recipe for fritters using flour, eggs, salt, water, nutmeg, sack, beer, apples, and lard.
To Make Mrs Thomsons Kakes
A recipe for cake
My Lady N French Bread
A recipe for French bread using flour, milk, eggs, ale yeast, and salt.
My Aunt Nevils Seed Kake
A recipe for making cake using caraway comfits, a sweetmeat preserved with sugar that includes a caraway seed.
To Make Ginger Bread Mrs Lister
A recipe for gingerbread using treacle, sugar, ginger, butter, and flour.
Paste for the thin Tarts
A recipe for tarts using flour, an egg, sugar, butter, water, and apples.
To Make wigs the Lady Neviles way
A recipe for making wigs, a bun/small cake.
To make the best Litele plombe Kakes [little plum cakes]
A recipe for making plum cakes using sugar, butter, flour, rose water, cream, eggs, currants, nutmeg, and cloves.
To Make Starch
A recipe to make starch by straining water in which a chisel has been soaked.
To Make Jumbels [jumbles]
A recipe for jumbles (similar to sugar cookies) using flour, sugar, eggs, caraway and coriander seeds.
To Make Puff Paist [Pastry]
A recipe for making puff pastry dough using flour, water, eggs, and butter.
A Dutch Puding [pudding]
A recipe for a baked Dutch pudding, using short paste (a pastry made with shortening or fat), eggs, and butter.
To make a fine Baked Puding [pudding] MB
A recipe for baked pudding using milk, almonds, nutmeg, mace, sugar, salt, cream, butter, bone marrow or beef suet, and "Napps Bisquets."
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 Lemon bisket
A recipe for baking lemon biscuits using flour, sugar, lemon peel, lemon juice, and eggs.
Mrs Bushels Caraway Cake
A recipe for making caraway cake using caraway comfits, a sweetmeat preserved with sugar that includes a caraway seed.
To Make a Caraway Kake
A recipe for cake using caraway comfits (candied seeds).
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 My owne Chees Cakes [cheesecakes]
A recipe to make cheese cake.
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 the Queens kakes
A recipe for making small cakes with currants and spices.
To Make French Breade
A recipe for a french bread, using flour, milk, butter, salt, yeast, and vinegar, baked in loafs.
To Make Biskets the Lady Ingrams way
A recipe for baking biscuits with eggs, rose water, sugar, flour, and coriander seeds.
Diet Bread
A recipe for a fatless bread using eggs and egg white, sugar, and flour with caraway seeds and musk.
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