Sack Posset Recipe 👉 A basic posset was made from milk possibly curdled with alcohol or citrus and often spiced. Of charcoles keep it stiring till it is prety hot lett a quart of milke boyle up.
Makes 810 posset pots or teacups 850ml 29 fl oz thin pouring cream 1 cinnamon stick 1 mace blade 6 egg yolks 3 egg whites 230ml 7¾ fl oz sherry or Madeira for an alcohol-free posset. Also remember that hygiene pasteurization etc were not known at this time so alcohol was the way to kill germs. I like this 1596 recipe from The Good Housewifes Jewel Take a pint of thick cream and season it with sugar and ginger and rose water.
Makes 810 posset pots or teacups 850ml 29 fl oz thin pouring cream 1 cinnamon stick 1 mace blade 6 egg yolks 3 egg whites 230ml 7¾ fl oz sherry or Madeira for an alcohol-free posset.
Pickled cherry cinnamon sugar recipe makes a mini-posset as a posset primer rather than the medieval quantity of posset which was much larger using up to between 12-26 eggs. Take a Pottle of Cream and boil in it a little whole Cinnamon and three or four flakes of Mace. Take one pound of almonds beate them very small. Some recipes expected it to curdle others did not.