Syllabub

Traced back to a thick, frothy concoction served in Elizabethan England, the term syllabub derives from sille (a French wine) and bub (a bubbling drink) and describes one of the South’s most distinctive beverages/desserts (depending on its consistency). I remember watching my Georgian grandmother beat liquidy syllabub with a whisk for one of her afternoon “cake socials,” but I also recall eating it with a spoon when my parents visited friends in Louisiana and we kids we