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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
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Preparation of materials for use in the home, including dyes, waterproofing, and ink.
My Grandmothers F: Sear Cloth
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 Paint Grates Black
A recipe for making a black paint using a red-tinted lead-based pigment
Mr Balls Receipt for making black Ink
A recipe for making black ink using iron galls, gum arabic, and copperas (possibly green vitriol)
In the [Annales] des [Certes] is the following receipt for making a milk white paint
A recipe for making a white paint using lime, milk, linseed oil, Burgundy pitch (a kind of resin), and Spanish white (a chalk white pigment).
Water Proof . – The following is the Chinese method for rendering cloth water-proof:
A recipe and method for waterproofing cloth by mixing melted wax with turpentine.
Patent granted to Mr. Wm Jayne of Sheffield...
A recipe for a preservative for eggs using quicklime, salt, and cream of tartar.
An Important Improvement in Shoes and Boots from the London Chronicle
A method for waterproofing leather shoes using wax, oil, turpentine, and burgundy pitch, used to soften and weatherproof.
For keping Shoos Black
A recipe for making shoe black (keeping shoes black).
To Dy [dye] a Good Red
This recipe gives instructions for creating a red dye for wool, using brazilwood, madder, alum, and chamber-lye (urine).
To Dy [Dye] Blue
This recipe gives instructions for creating a blue dye for wool, using logwood and verdigris.
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