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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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Browse Recipes
Drinks
Health Waters
Health Waters
Phistillia [fistula] watter [water] which will keep the pipe from growing & desolve [dissolve] ye Lump that is hard
Describes a recipe for "fistula water," a remedy for treating fistulas using alum, zinc sulfate ("white vitriol"), and bole armeniac (a kind of clay uses as a styptic).
A watter that keeps the body in health
A tonic to preserve overall health.
Flugeny water twenty drops in Milk water given to the woman hastens her Labour
A medical treatment to induce labor (childbirth).
An Excelent Resept for mouth water
[Untitled recipe for brewing a drink with water, sugar, and hops]
A recipe for a drink made by boiling hops with sugar, used for unknown purposes
My lady Nevels Surfit water
Plague Water to Make
To Make My Lady Nevells Snaile Watter
To Make Mrs Fleetwoods Surfeit Watter
To Make a Perfumed water
The Great Palsey water Duches of Bu [Buckingham]
A recipe for the treatment of palsy, using peony, celandine, lavender, and loaf sugar, "approved by her Grace the Duchess of Buckingham."
The Snaile : Water
The Treakele Water
A Stumach or surfiet water
A consumsion water
Aqua Mirabelis
Mrs Fletwoods Surfeit water
To Make All Sorts of Wines & Stiled Water
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