Note 416 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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Sack-posset was compounded of milk, spirits, and other ingredients; and it was eaten with a spoon: Sewall's Diary, in 5 Mass. Hist. Coll., VI, 403, note. On the wonderful mixed drinks of the New England Puritans see Mrs. Earle's delightful chapter on "Old Colonial Drinks and Drinkers," Customs and Fashions, 163-83; and also Bliss, Side Glimpses from the Colonial Meeting-House, 12-28.