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Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book
Welcome
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 & Methods
About
About the Project
Who Was Elizabeth Fairfax?
Food and Music
Sugar
Cookbooks as a Window Into the Household
Health and Medicine in the Household
Entertaining in the Household
The Cookbook as a Source
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Health Waters
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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).
A watter that keeps the body in health
[Flugeny?] water twenty drops in Milk water given to the woman hastens her Labour
An Excelent Resept for mouth water
[Recipe for brewing a drink with water, sugar, and hops]
My lady Nevels Surfit water
Plague Water to Make
To Make My Lady Nevells Snaile Watter
To Make Mrs Fleetwoods Surfeit Watter
To Make a Perfumed water
The Great Palsey water Duches of Bu [Buckingham]
A recipe for the treatment of palsy, using peony, celandine, lavender, and loaf sugar, "approved by her Grace the Duchess of Buckingham."
The Snaile : Water
The Treakele Water
A Stumach or surfiet water
A consumsion water
Aqua Mirabelis
Mrs Fletwoods Surfeit water
To Make All Sorts of Wines & Stiled Water
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