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On top guests can choose from biscuits or shortbread flavored with lemon and lavender, mini cuppa-cakes and fresh lemon possets or lemon fools with organic blueberries.
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Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
Some of the earliest cocktails were the flip and the posset of the Colonial period in America.
—Jeff Burkhart, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
The posset was actually consumed by the wealthy and those in the upper class.
—Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2023
This sounded like a relative of a fruity panna cotta or soft-set posset, albeit one that had immigrated to the Intermountain West and shopped at Chico’s.
—Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon Appétit, 17 Oct. 2023
For dessert, diners can indulge in a warm chocolate tart or lemon posset with milk ice cream and rhubarb, among other offerings.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 June 2022
American eggnog is closely related to English posset and Scottish Auld Man's Milk (to be drunk on New Year's Day after a night of revelry).
—Kelly Brant, Arkansas Online, 22 Dec. 2021
Teapot-like drinking vessels for posset enabled people to drink the liquid before eating the curds with a spoon after.
—Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
Hints of sherbet, marshmallow, lemon posset (a kind of lemon custard), mango, creamed peaches and ripe orange lead on to a composed and approachable palate that has good complexity.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 6 June 2021
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Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
Some of the earliest cocktails were the flip and the posset of the Colonial period in America.
—Jeff Burkhart, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
The posset was actually consumed by the wealthy and those in the upper class.
—Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2023
This sounded like a relative of a fruity panna cotta or soft-set posset, albeit one that had immigrated to the Intermountain West and shopped at Chico’s.
—Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon Appétit, 17 Oct. 2023
For dessert, diners can indulge in a warm chocolate tart or lemon posset with milk ice cream and rhubarb, among other offerings.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 June 2022
American eggnog is closely related to English posset and Scottish Auld Man's Milk (to be drunk on New Year's Day after a night of revelry).
—Kelly Brant, Arkansas Online, 22 Dec. 2021
Teapot-like drinking vessels for posset enabled people to drink the liquid before eating the curds with a spoon after.
—Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
Hints of sherbet, marshmallow, lemon posset (a kind of lemon custard), mango, creamed peaches and ripe orange lead on to a composed and approachable palate that has good complexity.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 6 June 2021
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“Posset.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/posset. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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