Sir Walter Raleigh’s Sack Posset
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Italy
Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 6 ingredients
- Ale
- Mace
- Sugar
- Nutmeg
- a pint of sack
- a quart of cream
Contains
GlutenMilk
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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
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- Boil a quart of cream, with a quantum sufficit of sugar, mace, and nutmeg;
- take half a pint of sack, and the same quantity of ale, and boil them well together, adding sugar;
- these being boiled separately, are now to be added.
- Heat a pewter dish very hot, and cover your bason with it, and let it stand by the fire for two or three hours.—Prob.
- est.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan