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Ale Posset

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Sugar
  2. a pint of ale
  3. Nutmeg
  4. White bread
  5. a pint of milk

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Take a small piece of white bread, put it into a pint of milk, and set it over the fire.
  2. Then put some nutmeg and sugar into a pint of ale, w arm it, and when your milk boils, pour it upon the ale.
  3. Let it stand a few* minutes to clear, and it will be fit for use.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
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Credit

From Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book (1845), printed page 312, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-95792-50

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.