Syllabub: the name sounds weird, but it is a delicious cream dessert
Syllabub is a sweet curd made out of sweet cream or milk. It uses wine or cider as acid to actually from the curd. It was first made around the sixteenth century, and it remained popular until the nineteenth century. Early recipes resemble more of a drink that used cider with milk.
It had evolved into a delicious dessert made with sweet white wine by the seventeenth century. It was generally served cold with whipped cream in rich colonial homes. If the name sounds familiar, it is because of the word syllabus, which has no relation to this, but it is related to the subjects in a course of studies.