posset in a sentence

Examples

1. It has been called Portshead and Portschute at times in its history and Portesheve in the Domesday Book, and was locally known as Posset.
2. On arrival in the earlier Posset Place, Jessamy promised Matchett, who was up late at night, not to betray her love affair.
3. It was damp and discoloured, but Miss Brindle showed it to the house agent, who showed it to the owner of Posset Place.
4. By use of a posset made using an extremely smelly mushroom, the cooks of the Chinese delegation are able to restore Temeraire to health.
5. "Rudis haec tractatio docet, quantum ille color emendari posset, si in vase stanneo, cum sale ammoniaco et solutione stanni tractaretur.
6. William Carew Hazlitt provides a number of recipes for caudles and possets in his book, " Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine ".
7. Eggnog may have developed from posset, a medieval European beverage made with hot milk that was curdled with wine or ale and flavoured with spices.
8. The English took the drink with them to North America and a purl house was opened in New York where rich punches and possets were popular.
9. The word " posset " is mostly used nowadays for a cold set dessert loosely based on the drink, containing cream and lemon, similar to syllabub.
10. By the time he retired, Anton Posset's personnel file at the Bavarian Ministry of Education and the Arts had grown to comprise tens of thousands of pages.