Cups And Their Customs
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Posset, which full well shows us propriety of taste in its compounder. " Boil a quart of cream with quantum sufficit of sugar, mace, and nutmeg ; take half a pint of sack, and the same quantity of ale, and boil them well together, adding sugar ; these, being boiled separately, are now to be added. Heat a pewter dish very hot, and cover your basin with it, and let it stand by the fire for two or three hours. " With regard to wines, we find in the beginning of the 16th century that the demand for... Malmsey was small ; and in 1531 we* find Sack first spoken of, that being the name applied to the vintages of Candia, Cyprus, and Spain. Shakspeare pronounced Malmsey to be "ful- som, " and bestowed all his praises on "fertil sherries;" and when Shakspeare makes use of the word Sack, he evidently means by it a superior class of wine. Thus Sir Launcelot Sparcock, in the " London Prodigal, " says, " Drawer, let me have sack for us old men : For these girls and knaves small wines are beat. " In all probability, the sack of Shakspeare was very much allied to, if not precisely the same as, our sherry ; for Falstaff says, " You rogue !
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Posset, which full well shows us propriety of taste in its compounder. " Boil a quart of cream with quantum sufficit of sugar, mace, and nutmeg ; take half a pint of sack, and the same quantity of ale, and boil them well together, adding sugar ; these, being boiled separately, are now to be added. Heat a pewter dish very hot, and cover your basin with it, and let it stand by the fire for two or three hours. " With regard to wines, we find in the beginning of the 16th century that the demand for... Malmsey was small ; and in 1531 we* find Sack first spoken of, that being the name applied to the vintages of Candia, Cyprus, and Spain. Shakspeare pronounced Malmsey to be "ful- som, " and bestowed all his praises on "fertil sherries;" and when Shakspeare makes use of the word Sack, he evidently means by it a superior class of wine. Thus Sir Launcelot Sparcock, in the " London Prodigal, " says, " Drawer, let me have sack for us old men : For these girls and knaves small wines are beat. " In all probability, the sack of Shakspeare was very much allied to, if not precisely the same as, our sherry ; for Falstaff says, " You rogue !
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