SC - Mulled Cider

[Elysant at aol.com]

Adamantius wrote:

><snip> However, my Webster's New World Dictionary draws a
>distinction between the mull as in pulverize, and mull as in "soft",
>associated with, for example, the French oeufs mollet or soft-boiled
>eggs, and, according to them, with mulled wine and cider. Maybe the
>gentle heat?

<snip>

> I actually have an antique beer-muller,
> essentially a covered, narrow-tapered stein or jack made of hammered,
> tinned copper, with a little notch in the cover so it can be closed
> completely with the heating element thrust inside.
  
Sounds like it may be a heat related process then... and perhaps a lost 
definition of the word?

Elysant