Breads and Baked Goods · Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book

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

Her French bread

Friteres

To Make Mrs Thomsons Kakes

My Lady N French Bread

My Aunt Flevils 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 Liste[r]

Paste for the thin Tarts

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]

To Make Starch

To Make Jumbels

To Make Puff Paist [Pastry]

A recipe for making puff pastry dough

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

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 [biscuit]

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

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 ye [the] Lady Ingrams way

A recipe for baking biscuits with eggs, rose water, sugar, flour, and coriander seeds.

Rie[Rye] Bread

A recipe for rye bread using caraway seeds and musk, risen in a coffin/coffer.