0 a sweet, cold dish consisting of cream mixed with sugar, white wine, and sometimes the white of an egg --
In place of syllabub or boiled custard, there were bowls of ambrosia--oranges in sections, freed of skin and seed, and smothered in grated fresh cocoanut and sugar.
I went to see the women behind their screen, and found one of them engaged in making a dish which looked like something which we used to call syllabub.
A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.
Naturalistic optimism is mere syllabub and flattery and sponge‐cake in comparison.
Then a honey syllabub was drunk in clinking cups, and they made a night of it.
In cold weather wine jelly often took the place of syllabub.
Like syllabub, boiled custard necessitated spoons--hence the borrowing of small silver was in most cases imperative.
The thought should prevent us from regarding it as merely the syllabub of the literary feast, a kind of after-dinner condiment.
