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Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book
About
Project Launch and 18th Century British Baking Challenge
Project History
Acknowledgements and Contributors
View the Original Manuscript
Bibliography
Contact
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 & Subjects
Research Topics
Who Was Elizabeth Fairfax?
Cookbooks as a Window Into the Household
Recipe Books & Women’s Knowledge
Sugar
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Browse Recipes
Food
Breads and Baked Goods
Breads and Baked Goods
Napels bisket the beste
A recipe for making naples biscuits using almond flour and sweet cream.
Almond Pufs [puffs]
A recipe for a confection made with blanched pulverized almonds, orange blossom water, and sugar mixed with beaten egg whites (which may be similar to a meringue cookie).
Potatoe [potato] Bread
A recipe for bread made with boiled, sieved potatoes and wheat flour.
Crisp Pastes for Tarts
A recipe for pastry dough using sugar, flower, boiled cream, and butter. The recipe is possibly signed "HS".
Wakefield ginger bread [gingerbread]
A recipe for gingerbread using treacle, flour, orange peel, ginger, brandy, and sugar.
Her French bread
A recipe for French bread using flour, milk, water, and butter.
Friteres [fritters]
A recipe for fritters using flour, eggs, salt, water, nutmeg, sack, beer, apples, and lard.
To Make Mrs Thomsons Kakes
A recipe for cake
My Lady N French Bread
A recipe for French bread using flour, milk, eggs, ale yeast, and salt.
My Aunt Nevils Seed Kake
A recipe for making cake using caraway comfits, a sweetmeat preserved with sugar that includes a caraway seed.
To Make Ginger Bread Mrs Lister
A recipe for gingerbread using treacle, sugar, ginger, butter, and flour.
Paste for the thin Tarts
A recipe for tarts using flour, an egg, sugar, butter, water, and apples.
To Make wigs the Lady Neviles way
A recipe for making wigs, a bun/small cake.
To make the best Litele plombe Kakes [little plum cakes]
A recipe for making plum cakes using sugar, butter, flour, rose water, cream, eggs, currants, nutmeg, and cloves.
To Make Starch
A recipe to make starch by straining water in which a chisel has been soaked.
To Make Jumbels [jumbles]
A recipe for jumbles (similar to sugar cookies) using flour, sugar, eggs, caraway and coriander seeds.
To Make Puff Paist [Pastry]
A recipe for making puff pastry dough using flour, water, eggs, and butter.
A Dutch Puding [pudding]
A recipe for a baked Dutch pudding, using short paste (a pastry made with shortening or fat), eggs, and butter.
To make a fine Baked Puding [pudding] MB
A recipe for baked pudding using milk, almonds, nutmeg, mace, sugar, salt, cream, butter, bone marrow or beef suet, and "Napps Bisquets."
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.
To Make Lemon bisket
A recipe for baking lemon biscuits using flour, sugar, lemon peel, lemon juice, and eggs.
Mrs Bushels Caraway Cake
A recipe for making caraway cake using caraway comfits, a sweetmeat preserved with sugar that includes a caraway seed.
To Make a Caraway Kake
A recipe for cake using caraway comfits (candied seeds).
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 My owne Chees Cakes [cheesecakes]
A recipe to make cheese cake.
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 the Queens kakes
A recipe for making small cakes with currants and spices.
To Make French Breade
A recipe for a french bread, using flour, milk, butter, salt, yeast, and vinegar, baked in loafs.
To Make Biskets the Lady Ingrams way
A recipe for baking biscuits with eggs, rose water, sugar, flour, and coriander seeds.
Diet Bread
A recipe for a fatless bread using eggs and egg white, sugar, and flour with caraway seeds and musk.
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