Syllabub
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Syllabub (also sillabub, 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 wine.[1] 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. 'Bub' was Elizabethan slang for a bubbling drink.[2]
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.[3]. Mrs Beeton (1861) gives two recipes.[4] 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."[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Davidson, Alan (1999). The Oxford Companion to Food. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, xix + 892. ISBN 0-19-211579-0.
- ^ Hartley, Dorthy (1954). Food in England. London: Macdonald & Co., 561-2. ISBN 0-356-00606-9.
- ^ Simon, André (1948). A Concise Encylopædia of Gastronomy. Section VIII, Wines and Spirits. London: The Wine and Food Society, viii + 178.
- ^ Beeton, Isabella (1861). Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. London: S.O. Beeton (facsimile, 1968, Jonathan Cape), 749 & 752.
- ^ Reynolds, Mrs. George W. M. (1871). The Household Book of Practical Receipts. 18th ed.. London: John Dicks, 12.
