1847 Oxford night caps (4th edition)

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those mentioned in the recipe

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for Egg Punch.

POSSET.

From fam'd Barbadoes, on the western main, Fetch sugar, ounces four ; fetch sack from Spain A pint ; and from the Eastern Indian coast Nutmeg, the glory of our northern toast; O'er flaming coals let them together heat, Till the all-conquering sack dissolve the sweet O'er such another fire put eggs just ten, New-born from tread of cock and rump of hen ; Stir them with steady hand and conscience pricking, To see th' untimely end of ten fine chicken : From shining shelf take down the brazen skellet, A quart of milk from gentle cow will fill it When boil'd and cold, put milk and sack to eggs,

Unite them firmly like the triple league, And on the fire let them together dwell Till miss sing twice Each lad and lass take up a silver spoon, And fall on fiercely like a starv'd dragoon.

— you must not kiss and tell:

Sir Fleetwood Fletcher's Sack Posset.