Recipe Corner: Holiday Edition

If you look up "nog" in the dictionary, it's defined as a brick-sized piece of wood, or a piece of wood used to support the walls of a mine, or a character in some Star Trek derivative television show.

I guess we call the popular holiday drink "egg nog" because if you make it right, you will feel like you got hit in the noggin by a nog! Or like you are a character in some show of which I have ne'er seen a single moment.

In case we have yet to meet, I love the essential Christmas diet - cookies, fruitcake, and egg nog.

There are two ways to do the nog: one is to buy a bottle of it from the dairy shelf at the BuySumMore and take it home to serve, adding nutmeg to the top and hooch to the bottom.

OR you can be a real patriot and follow the recipe handed down to us from The Father Of Our Country, General George Washington.  If you make some from this prescription, please invite me for a taste-test! 

GEORGE WASHINGTON’S CHRISTMAS EGGNOG RECIPE

“One quart cream, one quart milk, one dozen tablespoons sugar, one pint brandy, ½ pint rye whiskey, ½ pint Jamaica rum, ¼ pint sherry

—mix liquor first,
then separate yolks and whites of 12 eggs,
add sugar to beaten yolks,
mix well.

Add milk and cream, slowly beating.
Beat whites of eggs until stiff and fold slowly into mixture.
Let set in cool place for several days.
Taste frequently.”


And let those last two words stay with us all forever!