Sr. Fleit Shephard’s receipt for a sack-poset [posset]

Title: Sr. Fleit Shephard’s receipt for a sack-poset [posset]
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A transcribed poem.
Transcript: From fam'd Barbados on the Wastern main / Fetch sugar halfe a-pound: fetch sack from [illegible] / A pint; & from the Eastern Indian coast / Nutmeg the glory of our Northern post: / On flameing coals together let ‘em heat / Till the all conquering Sack dissolves the sweet: / On such another fire let egs twice ten / New borm from foot of cock, & rump of hen / Stir 'em with steddy hand, & conscienes prickin[illegible] / To see the untimely fate of twenty chicken: / From shining shelfs take down your brazen skelli[illegible] / A quart of milk from gentle cow will fill it: / When boyl’d to cold put milk, & sack to egg, / Unite 'em firmly like the Triple-league; / Then close together let 'em dwell / Till Miss twice sings, You must not kiss & tell. / Each lad, each lass snatch up their murd’ring spoons / And fall on fisrcly like your starv’d Dragoons
Subject: See all items with this value sugar; See all items with this value nutmeg; See all items with this value milk; See all items with this value eggs; See all items with this value Sack
Contributor: Cheston, Jarissa; Le, Vincent
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

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