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A syllabub is an old English dessert: cream whipped together with sugar and something sharp — usually white wine or sherry, sometimes lemon juice or cider. The acid slightly the cream, so the result is light, foamy and cool, somewhere between a mousse and a very soft whipped cream, and it is served in a small glass rather than on a plate. It is not a cake and not an ice cream; there is no baking involved. The word is rare and old-fashioned. You will meet it in , in period novels, and on the menu of a restaurant that is deliberately serving traditional British food — not in ordinary conversation, and almost never outside Britain. Centuries ago it was often a drink rather than a dish: the cream and wine separated in the glass, so you drank the boozy liquid from underneath and ate the froth on top with a spoon. Modern versions are usually thicker and eaten with a spoon throughout. Because it contains alcohol that is never cooked off, it is an adult dessert. The spelling is fixed as one word, and the plural is 'syllabubs'.
西拉布，一種英國傳統甜點：鮮奶油加糖，再打入白酒或檸檬汁，做成清爽的泡沫狀奶凍，裝在小玻璃杯裡用湯匙吃。中文沒有通行譯名，餐廳菜單多半直接寫英文或音譯。可以想成「加了酒的、比較稀的打發鮮奶油甜點」，不是慕斯也不是冰淇淋。
組成Origin unknown — this is one of the words where scholars simply admit they do not know. The 'syll-' part looks like the 'syll-' in 'syllable' and 'syllabus', and that resemblance may have shaped how people chose to spell it, but the words are not related. So there is no meaning to unpack in the pieces; the sensible thing is to learn it whole.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
syllabubnoun/ˈsɪ.lə.bʌb/
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A drink dating back to the 16th century consisting primarily of milk curdled with an alcoholic beverage or some acid such as lemon juice, which is usually then sweetened and spiced.
- I shall yet think it a diminution to our happiness, to miss of half our companions and compotators of syllabub, not to have Mr. Newsham and his dogs, and his preceptors, and his dearly-beloved cousin, and his mathematics, and his Greek, and his horses.
- In the evening I ſhall hope for the honour of your Lordſhip's company to take a diſh of tea there, or a ſullabub warm from the cow.
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A dessert pudding derived from the drink.
- Mother by hys sonne he hathe sende me a letter / Promysynge hereafter to be to vs better / And you and I with my greate clubbe / Muste walke to him and eate a solybubbe / and we shall make merye / and synge tyrle on the berye […]
- To make Everlasting Syllabubs. Take three pints of the thickest and sweetest cream you can get, a pint of rhenish, half a pint of sack, three lemons, near a pound of double refined sugar, beat and sift your sugar, and put it to the cream; grate off the yellow rind of three lemons, put that in, and squeeze the juice of the three lemons into your wine; put that to the cream, beat all together with a whisk just half an hour, then take it up all together with a spoon, and fill your glasses.
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datedSomething lacking substance; something frothy, insubstantial, or lightweight.
- I like Paul's plain style best. Better to feed the appetite of the hungry, than to tickle the fancies of the whimsical. This breed of preachers are apt soon to preach themselves out of breath, and come to nothing. May you and I never be the retailers of such whipt-syllabub divinity—better keep a cook's-shop to satisfy the craving appetite, than a confectioner's-shop to regale the depraved appetite of the dainty. Good brown-bread preaching is the best after all.
- The truth is, the members indulged in too flippant a tone of discussion. The papers read every Saturday evening were characterized less by depth than buffoonery. They were all whipped syllabub. There was no investigation of first causes, first principles. There was no investigation of anything at all.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。