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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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Food
Breads and Baked Goods
Meat-based Dishes
Vegetable-based dishes
Dairy and Cheeses
Preserving, Pickling, Fermenting
Sauces and Condiments
Sweets and Desserts
Foodstuffs and their methods of preparation
To Make Lemon [Gelee]
A recipe to make a lemon drink by boiling lemon juice, peel, eggs, and sugar together.
Napels bisket the beste
A recipe for making naples biscuits using almond flour and sweet cream.
Goosberry [gooseberry] Vinegar
A method for making a vinegar by steeping fresh gooseberries with liquor and brown sugar.
Lemon Pickle
A method for pickling lemons in vinegar and spices
To Make a Dish of Scotch Colops [collops]
A recipe for veal fried with butter and spices and stewed in gravy.
To pickele pidgions [pickle pigeons]
A recipe for boiled pigeon stuffed with herbs and spices and pickled with vinegar.
To Make the Oyster loaves
A recipe for stewed oysters cooked with French bread
To Calver & Pickel [pickle] Salmon
A process for pickling and calvering salmon (a method of preparing fresh salmon) with vinegar, spices, herbs, and onion.
To roste [roast] a Shoulder of Mutton in the Blood
A recipe for preparing mutton shoulder using sheep's blood and herbs
To boyle Flownders [boil flounder]
A recipe for a flounder cooked in a sauce of wine, spices, lemon, and onion
To Pickele Barberys [barberries]
A method for pickling barberry fruit in salt water
To Make sausiges [sausages]
A method for making pork sausage in natural casing with suet, spices, herbs, bread, and eggs,
To Boyle [boil] Spinage [spinach] stalks
A recipe for boiling spinach ("like lettuce or asparagus") served with melted butter
To Make a Frigesey [fricassee] of chickens
A recipe for preparing chicken with butter, onion, and herbs and a sauce made of egg yolks, blood, and wine
To pickle Eggs
A method for pickling eggs with vinegar and spices
To pickele Harty Choakes [artichokes]
A method for pickling artichokes by parboiling in water and soaking in vinegar and salt
To Pot Lobster
A recipe for cooking and preserving lobster in butter with onion and spices
To Make a Frigisy [fricassee] of Sheep Tongues
A recipe for frying sheep's tongue in wine, spices, and herbs and making a pan gravy.
To [Suse] a Turkey
A recipe for turkey by boiling with salt and herbs and preparing a broth with wine and vinegar.
To pickle Walnuts like mangoes
A method for pickling walnuts by steeping and stuffing with spices.
To make white wine vinegere [vinegar]
A method for making vinegar by steeping malaga grapes in a vessel for 3 months.
For Cookery & Pickeles [pickles]
A method for pickling purslane or other vegetables by soaking in salt water and boiling with white vinegar and spices.
White Quince Marmallete [marmalade]
A recipe for marmalade made by boiling quinces with sugar, set with pippin jelly (probably a fruit jelly)
My Lady Neviles orange Kakes [cakes]
A recipe for making a confection by mixing orange peel and fruit with boiled sugar.
Sirope [syrup] of oranges or Lemons
A method for making syrup by dissolving sugar in orange or lemon juice and boiling with water.
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
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).
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.
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