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Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book
About
Project Launch and 18th Century British Baking Challenge
Acknowledgements and Contributors
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
Research Topics
Who Was Elizabeth Fairfax?
Cookbooks as a Window Into the Household
Recipe Books & Women’s Knowledge
Sugar
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Food
Sweets and Desserts
Sweets and Desserts
My Lady Neviles orange Kakes [cakes]
A recipe for making a confection by mixing orange peel and fruit with boiled sugar.
My Lady Nevels orange or lemon Kakes [cakes]
A recipe for a confection made by stewing orange peel and pulp with boiled sugar to make small cakes
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 Cakes of the pulph [pulp]of aney frewte [fruit] as quinces
A recipe for making a clear confection from fruit pulp mixed with egg white and sugar
To make quince Cakes
A recipe for making a confection by boiling quince fruit and dissolving them with sugar.
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 red Clear Cake
A recipe for making a small, clear confection by stewing currants and mixing the juice with boiled sugar syrup.
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 Calves foot Jelley [jelly]
A recipe for making a gelatin dish from boiled calf feet, lemon, eggs, and Rhenish wine
Miss Cripps’ Receipt for making Water Cakes
A recipe for a baked good using flour, sugar, and caraway seeds.
Chocolate puffs
A recipe for making a meringue-like dessert by mixing very fine sugar and chocolate into whipped egg whites and baking in a low oven.
Mince pies Mr Elmsall Emley
To Make Lemon Cheese Cakes Mrs Jane Willkinssons Resept
My Mothers resept for Almond pufs
To make the best Litele plombe Kakes [little plum cakes]
To make a fine Baked Puding [pudding] MB
Chescakes [cheesecakes] with out Curd
A recipe for making cheesecake.
To Make a Quakeing Puding [Pudding]
A recipe for a sweet steamed pudding (dessert) with nutmeg, covered with blanched almonds and topped with a mix of butter, sack (a fortified white wine), and sugar.
Marchpaine Cakes
Recipe for making "marchpaine cakes," or marzipan cakes, using sugar, almonds, and rose water.
To Ice a Cake
A recipe for making icing, and directions for icing a cake.
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