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A hot drink’s name became a cold dessert
Posset originally named a hot milk drink mixed with wine or ale. After that form disappeared, the name was revived in the nineteenth century for a cream, sugar and citrus confection served as a cold set dessert. The word survived a substantial change in the dish.
The name continued while the serving changed.
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