11 April 2007

Sweatmeat glasses


To rather a dull Glass Circle lecture on 18th century glasses for jellies, possets, blancmanges, syllabubs et al. From which I learn that 'desert' comes from the French 'deservir' or clear away and apparently the wealthy had their pyramids of concoctions transported elsewhere. Like having coffee and petits fours outside the main dining room?

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