posset

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A girl who did not know everything from the roasting of a turkey to the making of sack-posset, and through all the gradations of pickling and preserving, was not considered "finished Doris was very fond of the wide out-of-doors.

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  1. noun A spiced drink of hot sweetened milk curdled with wine or ale.

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  • His genius had been nursed on sack posset, and not on dishes of tea. —  Henry Fielding: A Memoir
  • Inexplicably, it may be the first appearance of the word posset on this website. —  Hooting Yard
  • The set (by the talented Vicki Smith) depicts a gracious country house created from a converted posset mill (I can't imagine why posset, a curdled, milky medieval drink, would need to be milled). —  Westword | Complete Issue
  • A girl who did not know everything from the roasting of a turkey to the making of sack-posset, and through all the gradations of pickling and preserving, was not considered "finished Doris was very fond of the wide out-of-doors. —  A Little Girl in Old Boston
  • Ale posset was a mixture of beer and milk, and each member of the family in turn had to take a "sup," as also a piece of a large apple-pie. —  Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
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  1. Middle English poshet, possot : perhaps Old French *posce (Latin pōsca, drink of vinegar and water from potāre, to drink; see potable + Latin esca, food from edere, to eat; see edible) + Middle English hot, hot; see hot.

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  1. from Middle English posset, possett, possyt (cf. French posset, possette, from English ?); perhaps from Irish pusoid, a posset; cf. Welsh posel, curdled milk, a posset, from posiaw, gather, heap. The L. posca, a drink of mingled vinegar and water, is prob. not concerned.
  2. from posset, n.
 

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