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One name covers a beverage and a dessert
British syllabub names both a beverage and a pudding made with milk or cream and ingredients such as wine. Versions could be drinkable or thick enough to eat with a spoon. Popular between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, it crosses the familiar drink-dessert boundary.
The name alone does not decide between cup and spoon.
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