My Lady Plymoths Sack Poset [posset]

Title: My Lady Plymoths Sack Poset [posset]
Creator: Plymoth, Lady
Date: 1694/1795
Description: Describes a recipe for "sack posset," a kind of hot drink made with milk curdled with alcohol. This recipe uses sack, a kind of white wine.
Transcript: My Lady Plymoths Sack Poset [posset]

[left margin: 305] Take 8 Eggs whites & all half a Pinte of alle a quarter of a Pinte of Sack 3 half pintes of milk sweten it with Suger & Sinemond Ceep it stiring till it be as thick as Creame then heat two Coushens very hot lay one at the botom & an other on the top, so ceep them shifting seting it by the fire till it be as thick as a Cousterd so sarve it up
Subject: alcoholic beverages; eggs; cinnamon; sugar; beers; milk; mixed drinks; cream; See all items with this value alcoholic beverages; See all items with this value eggs; See all items with this value cinnamon; See all items with this value sugar; See all items with this value milk; See all items with this value mixed drinks; See all items with this value cream; See all items with this value white wines; sack; ale
Contributor: Caylor, Karmen; Landry, Elena; 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.
Identifier: 34

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