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CIDER P OSSET.
Pound the peeling of a lemon in a mortar,
pour on it one quart of fres h drawn cider;
sweeten it with double refi ned s ugar, add
one gill of brandy, and one qu art of milk
from th e cow, s tir it well together, strain it
through
a
fin e hair sieve or a fl ann el bag,
th en
grate
a nutmeg into it, a nd it
is
fit
for use.
PERRY P OSSET
is prepared in the same way, exceptin g·
that p erry is used instead of cider.
There are other Possets, which have milk
for their basis, in use in di ffe rent parts of the
co untry, such , for instance, as T reacle Beer
and O ra nge P osset; but as they a re seldom
if ever made in O xford, it is not necessary
that any thing furth er should be said of
them.