What is "aleberry"

Aleberry \Ale"ber`ry\, n. [OE. alebery, alebrey; ale + bre broth, fr. AS. br[=i]w pottage.] A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread.

Their aleberries, caudles, possets.
--Beau. & Fl.

n. A beverage made by boiling ale with spice and sugar and sops of bread.

Aleberry is a beverage made by boiling ale with spice (such as nutmeg), sugar and bread-sops, the last commonly toasted. It is sweetened, strained, and drunk hot.

The word is "a corruption of ale-bree ... bree ( Anglo-Saxon brin, broth)."

Aleberry was often used as a domestic remedy for a cold.