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Dictionary Definition

syllabub

Noun

1 spiced hot milk with rum or wine [syn: sillabub]
2 sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor [syn: sillabub]

User Contributed Dictionary

English

Pronunciation

  • a uk /ˈsɪl.æ.bʌb/ /"sIl.

Extensive Definition

Syllabub (also sillabub, sillibub) is a traditional English dessert, popular from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It is usually made from rich milk or cream seasoned with sugar and wine. The frothing cream was poured straight into a bowl containing 'Sille,' a wine that used to be made in Sillery, in France's Champagne region. 'Bub' was Elizabethan slang for a bubbling drink.
The general ingredients are whipped cream, whipped egg white (absent since the introduction of electric mixers), lemon juice, lemon zest, sugar, nutmeg and an alcohol.. Mrs Beeton (1861) gives two recipes. One author's recipe says to mix the other ingredients together in a large bowl, "place the bowl under the cow, and milk it full."

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See also

syllabub in German: Syllabub
syllabub in French: Syllabub
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