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      Title: King William's Posset
 Categories: Alcohol, Punches, Dairy
      Yield: 10 Servings
 
      2 pt Cream
      1 pt Strong ale
     10    Eggs; yolks of
      4    Eggs; whites of
           Sugar; to taste
           Nutmeg; fresh grated; to
           -taste
 
  Take a quart of cream, and mix with it a pint of ale, then beat the
  yolks of ten eggs and the whites of four; when they are well beaten,
  put them to your cream and ale. Sweeten to your taste and slice some
  nutmeg in it; set it over the fire, and keep it stirring all the
  while, and when 'tis thick, and before it boils, take it off, and
  pour it into the bason you serve it in to the table.
  
  Recipe by Edward Spencer, The Flowing Bowl
 
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