Syllabub

[wildoates]

So, I'm meandering around the vast body of human literature recently and happened upon the food item "syllabub." I'm fairly well-read and have a moderately good vocabulary, but for the life of me I don't ever remember seeing or hearing the term before.

Now if my dear ol' mum was still alive, I'd ask her and I bet she'd know, but she isn't so I resorted to the internet. I love the internet, have I mentioned that before? It's almost as exhaustive as Mom. Anyway, check this out and tell me that it wouldn't be verrrry interesting made with just about any kind of mead you could concoct. I may have to serve it for dessert one of these days. I have just a little bit of mead sitting around the house that I could use.

Anyone ever had it? I did a GM search and only came up with one mention, from eons ago.

 

[kudapucat]

Sounds interesting.
The cream would kill a lit of the sweetness. It may work a treat.
Tell you what, grab that mead of yours and some cream. Take on for the team, whip it up and tell us what it's like.

 

[Chevette Girl]

Hmm, something to try with the container of whipping cream I bought for my b-day but never used since I stripped the gears from my mixer with the meringue

Reading a little deeper into that article, I suppose if you added cream to something that's carbonated (or in the more likely case that it's still fermenting), you mightn't have to whip much, the degassing would froth the drink itself!

 

[TheAlchemist]

Mmmm...you're provoking me...
Love the "syllabub pumping engine"
For sure that's something to try!
Have you put this on your syllabus for next teaching season?

 

[wildoates]

Hmmm...maybe I could get them to look it up, and then research why the cream clabbers when you add the wine.

 

[wildoates]

I'm entranced with the entire website, actually...I'm not sure if anyone should be allowed to have so much fun with food.

 

[Medsen Fey]

Wow!
Those treats look delicious. I'm imagining what that would taste like with honey/mead instead of wine, and I may just have to give this a try instead of making homemade icecream for the 4th of July!

Edit
I see that one recipe that calls for Seville oranges - the same ones I use in my Orange Marmalade melomel - and it is calling my name.

 

[TheAlchemist]

Wow!

Edit
I see that one recipe that calls for Seville oranges - the same ones I use in my Orange Marmalade melomel - and it is calling my name.

Heed the call! And tell us all about it!

 

[wildoates]

When I googled modern recipes for syllabub they tended to have a disclamer: Given its alcohol content, you might not want to give syllabub to children. Make them another dessert.

Sounds just the thing at bedtime.

 

[Chevette Girl]

Given its alcohol content, you might not want to give syllabub to children. Make them another dessert.

Sounds just the thing at bedtime.

LOL, sounds good for adults too!

 

[Ayinson]

This is just incredible.
Up until I read this thread a couple of days ago I had never heard of anything called "syllabub". But this evening, while I was eating, a random cooking show was on, and all of a sudden I hear this Danish guy say "Next, I'm going to show you how to make a syllabub."
Seriously, how come this tends to happen so often?

Anyway, the dude used cider instead of wine, so I'm fairly certain it should work with mead as well. He did give the warning that you shouldn't whisk it too much because the syllabub will start shifting if you do so, and also that the whisking itself might take quite a bit longer than whipping cream. The consistency to be looked for is not as stiff as you would whip cream, but rather something still liquidy but firm.

My 2 cents. Well actually the danish guy's two cents

 

[TheAlchemist]

...Seriously, how come this tends to happen so often?

'Cause you're tapped in to The Collective Unconscious?

 

[TheAlchemist]

Anybody try making any of this stuff yet?

How'd it turn out?

 

[wildoates]

I haven't, but I definitely will.

 

[ZwolfUpir]

I was planning on making a mead ice cream when I finished making the coffee mead, but I think this just shot up the list. Now to show the wife so she'll let me get the honey.

 

[TheAlchemist]

Interesting to see that Sir Kenelm Digby was in on this action!

 

[wildoates]

I suspect that if any part of the action included food on the board and drink in the cup, he was in on it.

 

[TheAlchemist]

No wonder he was knighted!

 

[Chevette Girl]

It's definitely on my to-do list...

 

[kudapucat]

It's definitely on my to-do list...

One day I'm going to want to see this list CG... Magical and mythical though it seems