Comparative dated examples of this ware include a posset pot dated 1735.
A posset pot of these colors in the Victoria and Albert Museum is supposed, by Rackham, to date from about 1740.
One small fragment comes from a large flanged cover, probably from a sweetmeat bowl or a posset pot.
The posset cups of silver were supplemented by tygs andposset cups and many-handled drinking cups of early Staffordshire make.
Caudle or posset was a drink consisting of milk curdled with wine, and in the days when it was drunk few went to bed without a cup of smoking hot posset.
The caudle cup, sometimes called a posset cup, is met with both without and with cover, and in some instances it is accompanied by a stand or tray.
She had a hot wine possetin her hand and a fresh Queen's cake.
Matilda took the posset and cake gratefully, and said, "I heard Dr.
Good again--give him my most humble commendations, and ask him to share thy boasted posset of wine with me.
I thank you, gudeman; but for unharnessing it matters not, as I must ride onward; but I will take the posset with thanks, for I am chilled to death by my long ride along this misty coast.
A warm posset that was simmering in the parlor for myself is at your service, and I'll set the stall-boy to corn your beast and stable it.
Ale posset, or milk and ale posset as some call it, is made in this wise.
The bowl of ale posset is then placed in the centre of the table.
Take a pint of the thickest cream you can get, and beat the whites of two eggs very well together, take off the cream by spoonfuls, and lie it in a sieve to drain; when you dish up the posset lie over it the froth.
The two evenings my wife gave me something to drink, but I don't know whether it was a sleepy posset or not.
The next night she got a few drops of the sleepy posset that she saved the evening before put into her husband's night drink, and that made him sleep sound enough.
Says she, 'Did you drink any sleepyposset either of these evenings before you went to bed?
Now this bowl and spoon, and then your Pris will pour her hot posset into your bowl, and you must shift it into your sweet mouth, and we'll be as right as a trivet, instanter!
Priscilla's posset was a heartening thing, and Constance after it, munched blissfully on a biscuit and sipped the wine that had been made of elder too brief a time before, yet which was friendly to her, nevertheless.
Next, I begged for an ale posset with pimpernel soaked in it, assuring him that by frequently drinking such a mixture, Secretary Naunton drew the infection from his very heart.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "posset" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
