posses

Example Sentences

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While possets can contain a variety of ingredients — ranging from ginger to star anise — the Queen actually liked hers quite simply made with just lemon, sugar, cream and Amaretti cookies.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2022

Or it can be used to make lemon possets: a classic British pudding made with just three ingredients — cream, lemon and sugar.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2021

Instead, you will learn the history of fixes, fizzes, cups, slings and possets, and how each category is defined by an essential ingredient.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2015

After this heroic dose of pills and possets for the intellect, the delegates climbed aboard a special train and sped across the Norwegian Alps to Bergen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here be sack possets, junkets and cream, for such as like them—French puffs and Italian puddings, right good, I warrant you, and especially admired by my honourable good lady.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison