After the basin has been removed from the coals and covered with a dish for the receipt (recipe) To make a Sack Posset lay a cloth over it and let it stand about a Quarter of an Hour.
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After the basin has been removed from the coals and covered with a dish for the receipt (recipe) To make a Sack Posset lay a cloth over it and let it stand about a Quarter of an Hour.
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After the basin with the mixture eggs, sugar, sack, nutmeg, and milk has been taken off the chafing-dish filled with hot coals for the receipt (recipe) To make a Sack Posset cover it with a Dish.
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After the boiling hot milk has been gently poured into the basin with the sack and eggs for the receipt (recipe) To make a Sack Posset take it off the Coals.
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After the mixture of eggs, sack and sugar in a basin has been placed on the chafing-dish of coals for the receipt (recipe) To make a Sack Posset stir it one way until it be scalding hot. Have in readiness three Quarts of Milk boiling hot, and pour it gently into the Bason to the Sack and Egg, and stir it about till it be all in. The picture shows one quart of milk added as I am preparing one third of the receipt.
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After the sugar, sack and egg mixture have been strained into a basin for the receipt (recipe) To make a Sack Posset set this (the bason) over a Chafing-dish of Coals.
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After the mixture of sack, sugar and nutmeg has been put to the Eggs for the receipt (recipe) To make a Sack Posset strain all into a Bason.
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The very last sentence of the receipt (recipe) To make a Sack Posset is You may put into the Sack and sugar two small nutmegs. This is not unusual in 18th century receipts for the addition of ingredients to not be listed in order and it is always wise to read the entire the entire receipt first.
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After the eggs have been beaten very well for the receipt (recipe) To make a Sack Posset dissolve a Pound of Sugar in a Pint of Sack. The quantity pictured is 1/3 pound of sugar to 1/3 pint of sack (a very dry sherry).
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The receipt (recipe) To make a Sack Posset reads take thirty Eggs, beat them very well, Yolks and Whites together but I prepared one-third of the receipt so the egg count pictured is ten.
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My table is ready for the 1756 receipt (recipe) To make a Sack Posset. Pictured are reproductions of 17th and 18th century posset pots, a Bason, and a chafing-dish of Coals.
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