Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, traditional eggnog. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
A traditional holiday drink dating back hundreds of years, eggnog is made with eggs (hence the name), milk, cream, spices like nutmeg and vanilla, and fortified with rum, whisky, and/or brandy. We grew up with eggnog, the kind you buy in a carton, and every Christmas holiday we kids drank up as much of it as we could. This is a great eggnog with or without alcohol.
Traditional Eggnog is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Traditional Eggnog is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook traditional eggnog using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional Eggnog:
- Prepare 1 gallon milk
- Take 1 gallon heavy cream
- Prepare 2 cup bourbon
- Take 32 each egg yolks
- Get 1 1/2 tbsp ground nutmeg
- Take 2 tbsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 32 each egg whites
- Get 4 cup granulated sugar
Eggnog may not be an actual hot drink, but it certainly feels warm on the way down! I just love the complex flavors, the touch of sweet, the smooth creaminess, and the way it immediately makes you think of the holidays. He grew up enjoying glasses of eggnog alongside snickerdoodle cookies and this was a memory I wanted to bring back for him. This eggnog recipe is thick, sweet, creamy and smooth, with the perfect flavor.
Instructions to make Traditional Eggnog:
- combine egg yolks and sugar untill smooth
- add milk, cream, vanilla, bourbon, cinnamon, and nutmeg
- beat egg whites with 3 tablespoons of sugar, until soft peaks. combine with the rest of the mix.
- serve chilled, garnish with cinnamon
It doesn't contain alcohol (if you'd like to add some, read on for my suggestions), but we are non-alcohol drinkers at my house, and I wanted an eggnog recipe my kids can enjoy too. Traditional eggnog has a significant fat content, due to the use of cream, and a high sugar content. Ingredients vary significantly between different recipes. This was my first time ever making eggnog and It was perfect the first time around so easy that even a fourteen year old could do it and that's me! Eggnog may be stored, covered, in the refrigerator for several days.
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