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[juliet]

"A posset is a jorum of hot milk..." Hurrah for the Box of Delights!

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[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Scrabbletastic.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Hot milk curdled with booze, no?

[juliet]

The recipe quoted in the Box of Delights (BBC adaptation version) calls for an Hegg, with a little nutmeg mixed in it, a spoon of black treacle, stirred up with a jorum of hot milk. And then you drinks it all down, and it makes a new man of you. According to the Bloodhound of the Law, anyway.

However, all the recipes I can find on the interweb feature some variety of alcohol (sack, sherry, rum, or brandy, variously). As P has just pointed out, the BBC prob wouldn't want to advocate giving BOOZE to kiddies (Kay drinks a posset, as recommended by aforementioned Bloodhound, at one point); and I can't remember whether the Masefield book has alcohol in the recipe or not (& don't have my copy here - is at my parents').

I want a posset, now. Except milk & egg, wd probably make me sick. I should make Pete one, instead.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Ale and wine were also potential posset ingredients, and an Hegg was a later addition - Ye Olde Medieval Reciepts were generally hot milk gone curdled with b00z3, and possets could cure *loads* of things. Eggnog (what there tharr recipe sounds like) is about the only form of posset still consumed in any quantity, and is often alcohol-free. (And *why* does my mind insist on retaining this sort of thing? I think I read a novel about one once, or something.)

[mikewd]

Surely if it's the Box of Delights it should be Scrobbletastic...

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

That takes me back, Pat Troughton, a story that only touched vaguely on the notion of making any sense whatsoever, and genuinely scary too, for a kids show... Aaah, great days...

[brightybot.livejournal.com]

y'know, I think the first time I ever heard a posset mentioned was in the box of delights, as well. I remember being fascinated by the concept, and demanding one from my mum, who not surprisingly ignored me.

[dogrando.livejournal.com]

It doesn't take much prodding of google before you come across 'a piggin of fig sue'. I can't remember the last time google provided me with a phrase finer than 'a piggin of fig sue'.