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 make Stoutens drops – Mrs Bridget
A recipe for liquid to be taken as drops, made from Seville oranges and a mixture of medicinal plants infused in brandy. -
To Make Starch
A recipe to make starch by straining water in which a chisel has been soaked. -
To make Spirit of Urin
Directions for distilling urine. -
To Make sausiges [sausages]
A method for making pork sausage in natural casing with suet, spices, herbs, bread, and eggs, -
To Make red Clear Cake
A recipe for making a small, clear confection by stewing currants and mixing the juice with boiled sugar syrup. -
To Make Rasbery [raspberry] Clear Cake
A recipe for making a small, clear confection by stewing raspberries and mixing the juice with boiled sugar syrup. -
To make quince Cakes
A recipe for making a confection by boiling quince fruit and dissolving them with sugar. -
To Make Puff Paist [Pastry]
A recipe for making puff pastry dough using flour, water, eggs, and butter. -
To Make Princes Biskets
A recipe for a pastry using eggs, sugar, flour, and caraway seeds, baked in small "coffins," or boxes/tins. -
To make Oyle of Eges good to take away Scars in the Face
A recipe for an oil of eggs made from crumbled egg yolks, wax, water, and dew. -
To Make My owne Chees Cakes [cheesecakes]
A recipe to make cheese cake. -
To Make My Lady Nevells Snaile Watter [snail water]
A recipe for snail water to be used against worms, jaundice, "obstructions [and] stoning in the stomach or liver," plague, and consumption (tuberculosis). -
To Make Mrs Thomsons Kakes
A recipe for cake -
To Make Mrs Fleetwoods Surfeit Watter
A recipe for surfeit water (liquid medicine for indigestion). -
To Make Mead
A process for making mead using honey, ale yeast, and water. -
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 Lemon Cheese Cakes Mrs Jane Willkinssons Resept
A recipe for lemon cheesecake using lemons, sugar, eggs, butter, almonds, and rose or orange water. -
To Make Lemon Cakes
A recipe for making a small clear confection by scalding lemon juice with sugar, mixed with minced lemon peel. -
To Make Lemon bisket
A recipe for baking lemon biscuits using flour, sugar, lemon peel, lemon juice, and eggs. -
To Make Jumbels [jumbles]
A recipe for jumbles (similar to sugar cookies) using flour, sugar, eggs, caraway and coriander seeds. -
To Make Ink
A method for making ink by steeping galls and iron sulfate in gum arabic, made shiny by the addition of sugar and sack wine. -
To Make Green Goosbury [gooseberry] Wine. 1706
A recipe for making gooseberry wine by steeping gooseberries with sugar, refined with isinglass, in a multi-step process over the course of several months. -
To make Gousberrey Clere Cakes [gooseberry clear cakes]
A recipe for a small, transparent confection made by cooking gooseberries with refined sugar and water. -
To make goosbery wine
A recipe for gooseberry wine. -
To Make Goosberry Vinegar
A method for making gooseberry vinegar.