Syllabub

Syllabub (also "sillabub", ["Sillabub" is the preferred spelling in the "OED"; noted in 1537, its etymology is said to be of unknown origin. "Sillabouk" is a variant, noted 1573.] "sillibub") is a traditional English dessert, popular from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It is usually made from rich milk or cream seasoned with sugar and lightly curdled with winecite book
last = Davidson
first = Alan
authorlink = Alan Davidson (food writer)
coauthors =
title = The Oxford Companion to Food
publisher = Oxford University Press
date = 1999
location = Oxford, New York
pages = xix + 892
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 0-19-211579-0 ] or cider. ["OED", "s.v." "sillabub".] The frothing cream was poured straight into a bowl containing 'Sille,' a wine that used to be made in Sillery, in France's Champagne region. ["Sillery" as a wine designation is unknown before 1680, however, according to "OED".] 'Bub' was Elizabethan slang for a bubbling drink.cite book
last = Hartley
first = Dorthy
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coauthors =
title = Food in England
publisher = Macdonald & Co.
date = 1954
location = London
pages = 561-2
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 0-356-00606-9 ]

The general ingredients are whipped cream, whipped egg white (absent since the introduction of electric mixers), lemon juice, lemon zest, sugar, nutmeg and an alcohol.cite book
last = Simon
first = André
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = A Concise Encylopædia of Gastronomy. Section VIII, Wines and Spirits
publisher = The Wine and Food Society
date = 1948
location = London
pages = viii + 178
url =
doi =
id = ] . Mrs Beeton (1861) gives two recipes.cite book
last = Beeton
first = Isabella
authorlink = Mrs Beeton
coauthors =
title = Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management
publisher = S.O. Beeton (facsimile, 1968, Jonathan Cape)
date = 1861
location = London
pages = 749 & 752
url =
doi =
id = ] One author's recipe says to mix the other ingredients together in a large bowl, "place the bowl under the cow, and milk it full." [cite book
last = Reynolds
first = Mrs. George W. M.
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coauthors =
title = The Household Book of Practical Receipts. 18th ed.
publisher = John Dicks
date = 1871
location = London
pages = 12
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=lMSx8d6Ibi8C&printsec=titlepage&cad=0#PPA12
doi =
id = ]

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