syllabub

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She had a delightful evening with the Miss Middletons--syllabub, tea, coffee, singing dancing, a hot supper, eleven o'clock, everything that can be imagined agreeable.

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  1. noun A drink made of sweetened milk or cream curdled with wine or spirits.
  2. noun A cold dessert made with sweetened cream thickened with gelatin and beaten with wine, spirits, or fruit juice.

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  • Against one wall Olivia could see a groening board of gargantuan proportions, laden with all manner of succulent seasonal delicacies --roast goose, mince pies, syllabub, a holly-crowned boar's head, partridges roasted and regarbed in the gaudy plumage they had worn in life, a brimming punchbowl where whitecaps of "lambswool" bobbed alongside wizened crabapples. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 04-05 - October-November 1994
  • She had a delightful evening with the Miss Middletons—syllabub, tea, coffee, singing, dancing, a hot supper, eleven o'clock, everything that can be imagined agreeable. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters, by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
  • I had planned that Grave would be a Regency effort, light and sparkling and frothy as a syllabub with just a spot of murder to spice the pot. —  Magical Musings
  • Rhubarb syllabub, topped off with Rich chcolate truffles —  Home | Mail Online
  • However fragrant and well-spiced, syllabub is not to be drunk by the bucketful; neither would it be satisfactory to dine off a soufflé au marasquin_, though compounded by the philanthropical Regenerator himself. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
 

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