Name: How to Make Treacle Posset
Ingredients: a pint of milk; four table-spoonfuls of treacle

How to Make Treacle Posset

Ingredients

a pint of milk
four table-spoonfuls of treacle

Directions

Sweeten a pint of milk with four table-spoonfuls of treacle, boil this for ten minutes; strain it through a rag; drink it while hot, and go to bed well covered with blankets; and your cold will be all the less and you the better for it.

By Charles Elme Francatelli. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.