POSSET

Posset

A posset was a British hot drink of milk curdled with wine or ale, often spiced, which was popular from medieval times to the 19th century. The word is mainly used nowadays for a related dessert similar to syllabub. In the Middle Ages, it was used as a cold and flu remedy and was more of a drink than a mousse.

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posset

Noun

  1. A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine.

Verb

  1. To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood
  2. To treat with possets; to pamper


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