My Lady Plymoths Sack Poset [Posset]
Item
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]
Take 8 Eggs whites & all half a Pinte of alle a qrter 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 yn[then] heat two coushens very hot lay one at ye[the] botom & an other on ye ye top, so ceep ym [them] shifting seting it by ye fire till it be as thick as a Cousterd so Sarve[serve] it up - --
Take 8 Eggs whites & all half a Pinte of alle a qrter 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 yn[then] heat two coushens very hot lay one at ye[the] botom & an other on ye ye top, so ceep ym [them] shifting seting it by ye fire till it be as thick as a Cousterd so Sarve[serve] it up - --
Subject
alcoholic beverages See all items with this value
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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