Oxford Night Caps by Richard Cook (1860, p.27) — Oxford 1860
| black pepper — whole pepper | base |
- Prepare White Wine Whey.
- Boil whole pepper in the whey, though the text remarks that all-spice is far preferable.
Cook cites Dryden to show the old cultural currency of pepper posset as a domestic remedy.
This is a medicinally inflected variant note rather than a fully separate base build.