1871 Oxford Night Caps a collection of receipts for making various beverages used in the university

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A Pepper Posset was known to the learned and ingenious John Dryden, 88 will appear by the following lines written by him:-

A sparing diet did her health 8811Ul'e; Or sick, a pepper poeset was her cure.

CIDER POSSET. Pound the peeling of a lemon in a mortar, pour on it one quart of fresh ·drawn cider ; sweeten it with double-refined sugar, add one gill of brandy, and one quart of milk from the cow, stir it well together, strain it through a fine hair sieve or a flannel bag, then grate a nutmeg into it, and it is fit for use. PERRY POSSET is prepared in the same way, excepting that perry is used instead of cider. There are other Possets, which have milk for their basis, in use in di1ferent parts of the country, such, for instance, as Treacle, Beer, and Orange Posset; but 88 they are seldom