Fairfax-Spencer Family Receipt Book

A recipe to make a lemon drink by boiling lemon juice, peel, eggs, and sugar together.

A recipe for making naples biscuits using almond flour and sweet cream.

A recipe for treatment of scrofula ("King's Evil"), using coriander and cardamom seeds, sweet fennel, senna, rhubarb, mechoacan, and sweetened with licorice.

A medicinal drink to treat an unknown ailment [possibly menstrual or childbirth issues?] using mustard seed, treacle, and beer, taken for nine mornings.

A medicinal recipe for a paste to be used in childbirth, possibly using agrimony, to turn a breech birth.

A recipe for a medical treatment for palsy

Medicine for unknown purpose using sassafras, juniper, marshmallow, garden cress, elderflower, fennel, and licorice. Describes a recipe for a medicinal drink using a variety of herbs, berries, and roots, steeped in ale. The drink is indicated for daily use or as-needed, though the purpose is unclear due to missing pieces of the manuscript.

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).