During Ramazan, for example, the streets are lined with booths and stalls for the sale of the rice-gruel or "Faludah" which is so grateful a posset to the famishing Faithful, hurrying dinnerless to the nearest mosque.
"By-Ways of Bombay"
S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O.
After you have thus made your posset, let it stand warm a while that the curd may thicken: but take heed it boil not, for that would dissolve it again into the consistence of Cream.
"The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened"
Kenelm Digby
This will make an Excellent posset; nothing else but a tender Curd to the bottom; let it stand on the Coals half a quarter of an hour.
"The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened"
Kenelm Digby