Best Eggnog Recipe

[karadinart]

Mix 4 cups bourbon and 2¼ cups sugar in a bowl - allow to sit overnight.
beat 12 large egg yolks until they're sort of a pale yellow, which means you got to beat them a long time.
fold that into the bourbon and sugar and you let that sit a little bit. (a few hours)
Sort of the secret is, sort of, the marination(ph) a little bit in the bourbon.
Beat 8 cups whipping cream until stiff and fold in, cool again for an hour or so.
(serves 20)

southern lifestyle magazine Garden and Gun (no kidding)

Chatham Artillery Punch. That's a 19th century brew cooked up by a regiment that guarded the city of Savannah long ago. Reed says the Chatham Regiment was known for mixing a drink with a kick like a cannon.


A gallon of gin,
a gallon of rye,
a gallon of cognac,
two gallons of rum,
two gallons of Catawba wine
12 quarts of champagne.

Comments

[mrsr58.livejournal.com]

...and now we know why this stuff is so fattening.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

heh, yup, but it really beats the store bought eggnog

[mrsr58.livejournal.com]

i'll drink to that!

[tripleransom.livejournal.com]

That's kind of like my Gran's recipe, except hers calls for beating the whites and yolks separately each with 1/2 of the sugar, then folding them in to the lot.

Note: you have to be careful and not get any of the yolks in with the whites or they won't beat well.

Wonderful stuff, but it has quite a kick, so I always put a little warning note next to the bowl!

You can use rum instead, but as Southerners, we always used bourbon.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I like brandy in my eggnog, yeah, I've been looking at recipes and they often say beat in yolks with sugar and alcohol, and you can have that mixture in a bottle in fridge for about a week, but reserve the whites (you can freeze them) and beat the whites and add before you serve.