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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
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Dairy and Cheeses
Dairy and Cheeses
The Angelets
A recipe likely for making Angelot, a kind of soft cheese (now known as "Pont-l'Évêque").
To Make a thick Cheese
A method for making a thick, dry cheese (described as similar to parmesan), using milk, cream, rennet, and salt.
To Make a Creame Chees [cream cheese]
A recipe for making cream cheese
To Make a Slipcoat Chees [cheese]
Instructions on making slipcoat cheese using milk, cream, rennet, and whey, placed in a cheese-fat (a kind of vessel for making cheese).
The Savoy Chees [cheese] Called [V]acheline
A method for making a soft (possibly French Savoy) cheese, using rennet "as you do for cream cheese"
French Angelets [angelots]
Recipe for making a soft cheese , possibly "French angelot," using cream and rennet
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