The measurements given in the recipes are pre-Imperial. In Elizabeth Cleland's syllabub recipe, she gives a volume of measure that is a mutchkin, "TAKE a Mutchkin of thick Cream...". The mutchkin was a Scottish volume measure slightly smaller than an English pint (.9 of a pint). A cup is half a pint. If re-creating Cleland's recipe, it all would work just fine if one altered mutchkin of cream to a pint of cream, and half mutchkin of white wine to a cup of white wine.
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What is the equivalent to .9 pint? A cup?
The measurements given in the recipes are pre-Imperial. In Elizabeth Cleland's syllabub recipe, she gives a volume of measure that is a mutchkin, "TAKE a Mutchkin of thick Cream...". The mutchkin was a Scottish volume measure slightly smaller than an English pint (.9 of a pint). A cup is half a pint.
If re-creating Cleland's recipe, it all would work just fine if one altered mutchkin of cream to a pint of cream, and half mutchkin of white wine to a cup of white wine.