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WHITE WINE WHEY, OR MILK
POSSET.
Put one pint of milk into a saucepan, and
when it boils pour into it one gill of white
-wine; boil it till the curd becomes hard,
then strain it through a fine sieve; rub a
few knobs of loaf sugar on the rind of a
lemon, put them into the Whey ; grate a
small quantity of nutmeg into it; sweeten it
to your taste, and it is
fit
for use.
PEPPER POSSET.
The more to promote perspiration, whole
pepper is sometimes boiled in the Whey, but
all-spice is far preferable.
A Pepper Posset was known to the learned
and ingenious John Dryden, as will appear
by the following lines written by him;
A sparing diet did her health assure ;
Or sick, a pepper posset was her cure.
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