In 18th century Philadelphia, few houses on fashionable Chestnut Street glowed more merrily than that of James Allen. That was when the rising young attorney with the beautiful wife and growing daughters, the son of the richest man in the colony if not in all of British North America, entertained. Then the syllabub, a popular dessert of the day, tasted the sweetest and the madeira flowed with abundance.
Allen still talked of the night during the First Continental Congress when his father had John Adams and the Congress in, and the crusty Bostonian tasted his first glass of that wine and enjoyed his first syllabub, events Adams was later to recall. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.
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