Fairfax Cookbook
Item set
- Title
- Fairfax Cookbook
- Creator
- Stevens, Jen
- Date
- April 24, 2018
- Contributor
- Stevens, Jen
- Source
- Elizabeth Fairfax Cookbook
- Publisher
- George Mason University Libraries
- Rights
- Public domain.
Items
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To pickele Harty Choakes [artichokes]
A method for pickling artichokes by parboiling in water and soaking in vinegar and salt -
To Pickele Barberys [barberries]
A method for pickling barberry fruit in salt water -
To Physic Children after the Small Pox
A remedy believed to treat children with smallpox using calomel (mercurous chloride), tartar emetic, "crab's-eyes" (a calcified stone found in crayfish) and sugar. -
To Paint Grates Black
A recipe for making a black paint using a red-tinted lead-based pigment -
To Make wigs the Lady Neviles way
A recipe for making wigs, a bun/small cake. -
To make white wine vinegere [vinegar]
A method for making vinegar by steeping malaga grapes in a vessel for 3 months. -
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 the wine caled Necture [nectar]
Describes a process for creating a sweet wine by fermenting grapes with loaf sugar and lemon juice. -
To Make the Seed Cake Mrs Malbery
Recipe for making seed cake, using caraway comfits. -
To make the Read[text loss] the Ducheys of Buckinham way
A recipe for a remedy for a variety of ailments. Recipe includes angelica, tormentil, rue, betony, pimpernel, white wine, saffron, treacle (molasses) wine, Armenian bole, water germander (Teucrium scordium), and mithridate (mithridatium, mithridatum, or mithridaticum). Should be taken with cordial water or maids water (any weak water such as tea); Goa stone may be added. -
to Make the Queens kakes
A recipe for making small cakes with currants and spices. -
To Make the Oyster loaves
A recipe for stewed oysters cooked with French bread -
To Make the Ladys Easy
A medicinal drink to treat an unknown ailment [possibly menstrual or childbirth issues?] using mustard seed, treacle (molasses), and beer, taken for nine mornings. -
To Make the Lady Kents Pouder
Recipe for a remedy to cure numerous physical maladies, made from crab eyes, white amber, hartshorn, coral, contrayerva, crab claws, bezoar, and hartshorn jelly. -
To Make the French friters
A recipe for "French fritters" using flour, apples, orange flower water, and nutmeg, fried in fat. -
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.