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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
Vegetable-based dishes
Vegetable-based dishes
To Boyle [boil] Spinage [spinach] stalks
A recipe for boiling spinach ("like lettuce or asparagus") served with melted butter
To pickele Harty Choakes [artichokes]
A method for pickling artichokes by parboiling in water and soaking in vinegar and salt
For Cookery & Pickeles [pickles]
A method for pickling purslane or other vegetables by soaking in salt water and boiling with white vinegar and spices.
To Pickle Cabbage
A recipe for pickled cabbage.
To Make a Cabage Puding [cabbage pudding]
A recipe for a "cabbage pudding," using minced veal, beef fat, herbs and spices, and wrapped in cabbage leaves before boiling.
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