Have you ever eaten Syllabub? What does it taste like? Is it good?

Question

Syllabub is a traditional British dessert.

I've never heard of it until last night. It was funny, but I was reading a book called 'The Queen's Fool' by Phillipa Gregory (excellent book by the way), and I came across the word Syllabub.

I decided to look it up and lo and behold, it is a dessert!

Answer 1

I didn't know what is was either so I searched for some info online.  This was on Wikipedia:

Syllabub (also sillabub, sillibub) is a traditional British dessert, popular from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It is usually made from rich milk or cream seasoned with sugar and wine.  The frothing cream was poured straight into a bowl containing 'Sille,' a wine that used to be made in Sillery, in France's Champagne region. 'Bub' was Elizabethan slang for a bubbling drink.

The general ingredients are whipped cream, whipped egg white (absent since the introduction of electric mixers), lemon juice, lemon zest, sugar, nutmeg and an alcohol.

The 2nd link below is to an historic recipe for Lemon Syllabub.  I might have to try it!

Answer 2

I am a former chef anfind if you boil the wine down with a bit sugar and concentrate the flavour, a sweet wine is better, even a bit of orange or lemon peel in the wine.

Strain it out and start whipping the cream and add the sweet wine syrup slowly, like making meriange nests with sugar syrup.

Even layer it with some macerate fruits or candied/preserved ginger.

Answer 3

It is delicious and it is also something that you can make at home.  I love it because it is very smooth and flavorfull.

Answer 4

its like a soft mousse all different flavours but mainly quite nice