Christmas Posset

Ingredients

• Three quarts of new milk
• one pound of white bread
• one quart of lemonade
• three table-spoonfuls of ginger syrup

Method

1. 1

   Cut the bread in small pieces, boil it in the milk, and when it has boiled about two minutes, take it off the fire.

2. 2

   Put the lemonade, syrup, and sugar, in a large bowl or tureen; then put in carefully with a tea-cup, the bread and milk; let it remain undisturbed two or three minutes; then put down the bread very gently with a spoon, and sift powdered cinnamon on the top.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 108. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Christmas Posset. Three quarts of new milk, one pound of white bread, one quart of lemonade, and three table-spoonfuls of ginger syrup

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