When ye olde tavern keeper asked his patrons, "What's your poison?" their answer may very well have been, "Posset, please." The warm, creamy forerunner to eggnog was "all the rage in the late ...

Eggnog can trace its roots back as far as the 14th century, when medieval Englishmen enjoyed a hot cocktail known as posset. Posset didn’t contain eggs—the Oxford English Dictionary describes ...

The idea of a milky, alcoholic drink with eggs in it dates back to a medieval British drink called “posset,” writes Elizabeth Dias for Time. “By the 13th century,” she writes ...

Channel your inner medieval connoisseur with the velvety magic ... You would think something called a posset a posset, and especially how fancy they look. They look very French, but they were ...

Gather around the holiday hearth and you might find yourself sipping on festive eggnog — or wishing that you were. Across the globe, making and drinking eggnog is a way to ring in winter ...

The posset is a medieval drink that has made a comeback as a modern dessert. Is it Britain's best creamy pudding - and have you tried any versions other than lemon? The wonderfully named posset has ...

Most culinary anthropologists believe modern eggnog descended from a thick, boozy, late-medieval concoction called posset that was composed of hot milk and hooch enhanced with whatever spice the ...

Eggnog's roots date back to medieval England and a drink called “posset,” which included hot milk or cream, alcohol and spices. Recipes have evolved in the centuries since then, and non-dairy ...

Lush but light, lemon posset is a creamy dessert that sidesteps all of the usual requirements of a custard. It contains no eggs nor starch nor gelatin. It takes mere minutes to mix up on a ...