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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
  • Browse Recipes
  • Drinks
  • Health Waters

Health Waters

  • 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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