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WHITE WINE WHEY, OR Ml LK
POSSET.
Put on€ pint of milk into a sauce pan, and
when it boils pour into it one gi ll of white
wine ; boil it till the curd becomes hard
then strain it through a fine sieve; rub
~
few knobs of loaf sugar on the
rind
or
a
l emon, put them into the
°"' h ey;
grate
a
small quantity of nutmeg i11to it; sweeten it
to your taste, and it is fit for use.
PEPP.ER POSSET.
The more to promote perspiration, ·whole
pepper is sometimes boiled in the "Whey, but
all-spice is far preferable.
A PepperPosset was known to the learned
and ingenious John Dryden, as will appear
by
the followin g liu es written by him;
A sparing diet did her health assure ;
Or sick, a pepper posse! was her cure.