1847 Oxford night caps (4th edition)

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Posset, it seems, is a medicated drink of some antiquity ; for among the numerous Eng- lish authors who in some way or other speak of it, our immortal Bard Shakspeare has made one of his characters say, " We'll have a Posset at the latter end of a sea coal fire." And Sir John Suckling, who died in 1641, says in one of his poems, " In came the bridemaids with Dr. Johnson describes Posset to be milk curdled with wine and other acids ; we may therefore with propriety infer, that the White Wine Whey so common in Oxford is the Milk Posset of our forefathers. the Posset." WHITE WINE WHEY, OR MILK POSSET. Put one pint of milk into a saucepan, and when it boils pour into it one gill of white wine ; boil it till the curd becomes hard, then strain it through a fine sieve ; rub a few knobs of loaf sugar on the rind of a lemon, put them into the Whey ; grate a small quantity of