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Usually I'm out scouring the shelves of our local grocers around the beginning of October for this delicious treat that only seems to show up when the weather turns cold in North America. I'm talk 'bout eggnog. It's kind of one of the most amazing creations man has ever concocted, and we need to celebrate it before it disappears immediately after Christmas. Now I'm a fan of eggnog. I've loved it for as long as I can remember. I love the stuff that's so thick you can feel it coat the insides of your body on the way down. If it doesn't leave an opaque film on the glass, then it's not trying hard enough. And I'm not a drinker, but I've been told there's this stuff called "rum" that *apparently* mixes well with eggnog. Honestly, I think eggnog has enough merit to stand on its own. Anyway, spurred on by the massive amount of recipes that were collected in this thread last year I decided to not wait for the good poo poo to hit store shelves and try and make my own. I submit for your review the first of many attempts at eggnog: Easy Eggnog 6 eggs 3 cups milk 8 tablespoons sugar 3 teaspoon vanilla essence 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, ground In a large bowl, beat the eggs using an electric beater (if available). By turn, add milk & sugar. Continue beating until mixture thickens slightly. Add in the vanilla essence & ground nutmeg. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until chilled (at least 3 hours). Serves: 8. I picked this up from http://www.eggnogrecipe.net and it looked easy enough for someone whose only attempt at eggnog (at the ripe old age of 10 or something) failed miserably. This has to be better by default so let's get started.  Here's the set up.  This makes me feel like a TV chef!  No turning back now.  It starts to look pretty good after mixing the eggs, milk, and sugar into a frothy mess.  After adding the vanilla and nutmeg, it's time to throw it in the fridge to chill for a couple of hours.  Here's the second most important part of the process. Chilling the sacred eggnog mug.  After a few hours we have sufficiently chilled eggnog and mug.  Here's the final result. The verdict is just a "meh." It looks good and smells good, but it doesn't have that rib-sticking quality that I like in an eggnog. I will continue to search though, and if anyone has a recipe they want to put up as a contender this first entry will be very easy to top. So, let's get it going. Where have you found the best eggnog ever? Does your grandpa still make a fresh batch every Christmas? What other crazy eggnog snacks and treats do you make or find? Give me your top recipe because I'm going to make a lot of eggnog this year! Hurray! It's Eggnog Season! 
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 07:22 |
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| # ? Nov 21, 2009 01:01 |
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There's no booze and no cream in it. Its not eggnog  That being said, I'm a sucker for Alton Brown's Recipe http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/...ipe2/index.html I've made it for a few parties and it's turned out pretty well. Bonus video: Pt. 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuWOYeWYMZ4 Pt. 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3RwPo-ovi8 (I make mine sans alcohol so I can drink it in the afternoon and not feel guilty  )
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 07:34 |
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My Eggnog steamed cake didn't come out very egg-nog-y, but it did remind me how much I loving love the stuff. This year, I will make homemade eggnog.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 13:53 |
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Your recipe looks like it has a chance of being good, but you need to cook it over low heat to probably 172 or so to get the texture you want. I approve of the thread title, however.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 14:00 |
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Good idea. I always want eggnog well after it is gone from the store shelves. Especially when I have a scratchy throat. It looks so easy to make and because of this thread I'll be making my own this year. Thanks!
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 19:43 |
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Eggnog is gross. We had the same discussion last year so I'll just leave it at that.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 19:54 |
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GWS Hall Monitor posted:Eggnog is gross. We had the same discussion last year so I'll just leave it at that. What do you find gross about it? I'm not a huge fan, so I buy snog.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 20:25 |
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My rule is I can't drink it until after Thanksgiving... Eggnog is one of the few foods I can *not* control myself around. I've finished an entire carton in the half mile drive from Dairy Barn to my house. I've never made it from scratch but totally am going to try to this year - What is everyone's favorite store brand? If I can't get Dairy Barn eggnog I'll settle for the Southern Comfort black carton nog, TG-Lee is really good, Axlerod is alright but Chipwich is the worst. Waayy too thin and not "rummy" enough.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 21:50 |
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Dirty Beluga posted:My rule is I can't drink it until after Thanksgiving... Eggnog is one of the few foods I can *not* control myself around. I've finished an entire carton in the half mile drive from Dairy Barn to my house. If I'm forced to drink regular eggnog, I like the local dairy's. It's pretty fantastic.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 21:57 |
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Dirty Beluga posted:My rule is I can't drink it until after Thanksgiving... Eggnog is one of the few foods I can *not* control myself around. I've finished an entire carton in the half mile drive from Dairy Barn to my house. Thank god I'm not the only one. I have a goddamned fetish with egg nog. We have a couple local dairies that make it, and it's pretty exceptional, but that southern comfort carton you mentioned is pretty damned good for store bought.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 22:17 |
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We bought our first half-gallon of nog (yes, BOUGHT) a month ago. It had gone over. gently caress the Major Egg Nog Producers, man. gently caress 'em right in the ear.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 22:31 |
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NavalCasity will you make an eggnog cheese cake to bring to xmas dinner this year? thanks in advance love zetsurinpower
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| # ? Nov 08, 2009 01:30 |
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There is such a thing as an eggnog cheesecake? Holy poo poo. Anyway, Trip Report: I just watched the eggnog Good Eats and made the uncooked method of Egg Nog and it's really quite good. Better than any homemade I've had before (which usually has a bit of a funny taste to it). I'm going to try the cooked custard style next. Supposedly it's a little thicker which is never bad.
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| # ? Nov 08, 2009 01:33 |
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ZetsurinPower posted:NavalCasity will you make an eggnog cheese cake to bring to xmas dinner this year? thanks in advance love zetsurinpower I assume this is directed at the person who actually cooks in this house, and my answer is a solid maybe. The best eggnog I have ever tried is Oberweis. Too bad I really dislike the owner of the company...
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| # ? Nov 08, 2009 01:55 |
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Hypnolobster posted:Thank god I'm not the only one. I have a goddamned fetish with egg nog. We have a couple local dairies that make it, and it's pretty exceptional, but that southern comfort carton you mentioned is pretty damned good for store bought. Yeah, I'm usually pretty nuts about it myself, but the best store brands don't start appearing on shelves until closer to Thanksgiving. I'm a fan of C.F. Burger. Everything they make is pretty good. There's also a dairy conglomerate in Chicago called Oberwise that makes good eggnog. And as a kicker, Oberwise has home delivery. One year, my girlfriend got me two quarts of Oberwise delivered to our place on my birthday. It was awesome. Sometime this week I'll break out one of Alton's recipes and we'll see how that goes. And I could make a cheese cake if I wanted to, Mel, but I doubt anyone would eat it because it would be awful. And I would love that cheese cake despite it being the worst cheese cake ever made, because it would be MY awful cheese cake.
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| # ? Nov 08, 2009 02:05 |
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I got my first carton of egg nog of the year about a week ago. Almost finished it. For the most part I've been drinking it straight, although I had it mixed with bourbon once, mixed it into my coffee one morning, and this is probably going to sound like blasphemy, but sometimes if I want the eggnog flavor without all the calories and thickness, I'll cut it with milk. As for store brands, all I can get around here is Southern Comfort, that's not bad. My favorite one is Wawa brand, but you can mostly only find that in the Pennsylvania/New Jersey/Delaware region. There is a Wawa about half an hour's drive from me, but I'm not going that far just for egg nog.
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| # ? Nov 08, 2009 21:38 |
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Can you also post some boiled custard recipes? My mom would always get that for me instead of eggnog when I was a kid 'cause I liked it better. Or is that some strange thing only in Kentucky? I have to admit I haven't seen any custard since I left the south..but maybe I'm looking in the wrong places. Edit: for clarification, I mean the drink "boiled custard", not the pudding, not the ice cream..which seem to be all the recipes I turn up when I look. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang fucked around with this message at Nov 08, 2009 around 21:47 |
| # ? Nov 08, 2009 21:44 |
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang posted:Can you also post some boiled custard recipes? My mom would always get that for me instead of eggnog when I was a kid 'cause I liked it better. Or is that some strange thing only in Kentucky? I have to admit I haven't seen any custard since I left the south..but maybe I'm looking in the wrong places. Well, I know C.F. Burger has a custard version of their eggnog, so I know it exists. But C.F. Burger is based out of Detriot, so I don't know if you're in an area that sells it.
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| # ? Nov 08, 2009 22:03 |
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I'm in the Hudson valley..so we have Stewart's and *their* eggnog, but I don't know if they do custard (this is my first year living here, I have high hopes for Stewart's eggnog.) I will dig deeper! I feel boiled custard needs to be shared!
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| # ? Nov 08, 2009 23:51 |
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang posted:I will dig deeper! I feel boiled custard needs to be shared! But boiling custard gives you scrambled eggs.
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| # ? Nov 09, 2009 00:14 |
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I am a low-rent SOB and thus enjoy the hell out of the pre-bottled Evan Williams stuff. At $8 a fifth it is my go-to sweet snack in the winter months. Gets you a bit buzzed too. Oddly enough I don't really like decent eggnog when there is booze in it. It is great on it's own but I have never managed to get the proportions right to make it a good alcoholic drink. There is a local dairy that sells it at farmers markets sometimes. They are pretty coy about when they have it though, I assume due to the raw egg thing.
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| # ? Nov 09, 2009 00:46 |
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My wife picked up some store brand nog today to satiate my nog lust. I'm not optimistic.
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| # ? Nov 09, 2009 00:48 |
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I've had amazing results at parties with the Alton Brown eggnog recipe. I splurge a bit and use organic milk and cream (I think it tastes better) and good, fresh, free-range eggs. A shot of high-quality bourbon in every serving makes it even better. I would drink it all day every day if I could 
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| # ? Nov 09, 2009 01:06 |
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Time to break out the mug... It's another test run of a store bought brand. This time up we have brand-spanking new Lactaid Eggnog.  It's nicely spiced, and uses real milk, cream, and eggs so not only does it taste like eggnog, but it tastes really good. A little on the thin side, but still pretty heavy. Overall I could seriously recommend this anyone whether or not they are lactose intolerant.
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| # ? Nov 09, 2009 01:23 |
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^^ Can you buy lactose free cream?
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| # ? Nov 09, 2009 01:42 |
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Incredulous Red posted:^^ Can you buy lactose free cream? Not yet, but lactaid is coming up with all kinds of lactose free dairy products all the time.
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| # ? Nov 09, 2009 03:00 |
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NavalCasity posted:Time to break out the mug... Holy sweet Jesus in a glass of delicious eggnog, I hope I can find this in a store near me. I really want to try making my own eggnog, but the whole lactose intolerance thing makes drinking enough of it to make it worth the effort kind of difficult. If anyone has a really good recipe that somehow replaces the cream with milk, I could get lactaid milk, but otherwise it seems I'm screwed if I can't find this stuff. 
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| # ? Nov 09, 2009 03:27 |
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The only eggnog I really enjoy any more is Jeffrey Morgenthaler's recipe. I like to use a relatively cheap brandy de jerez like Fundador or Felipe II for the brandy and Sailor Jerry for the rum. Absolutely delicious, and not so gag-inducingly thick as some packaged nogs. It's fairly close in theory to Alton Brown's recipe, but I think the balance of flavors is much better with the higher alcohol content helping to round everything out. 3 oz of bourbon to 24 oz of dairy is really not enough, IMO.
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| # ? Nov 09, 2009 03:43 |
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Keeping an eye on this thread as eggnog isn't popular down here. I love it, but there's only ever one brand of eggnog in the supermarkets. Would like to try making my own this year.
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| # ? Nov 09, 2009 05:11 |
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:But boiling custard gives you scrambled eggs. But no! http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Southe...ard/Detail.aspx I haven't tested this recipe to see if its what I remember, but It sounds close if it turns out like the blurb at the top.
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| # ? Nov 09, 2009 13:02 |
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang posted:But no! http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Southe...ard/Detail.aspx I haven't tested this recipe to see if its what I remember, but It sounds close if it turns out like the blurb at the top. I see where they call it boiled custard, but you realize it doesn't actually boil, right? They have you do it over a double boiler even. You cook it to the nappe stage, which is about 40 degrees south of boiling.
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| # ? Nov 09, 2009 13:57 |
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I see where they call it boiled custard, but you realize it doesn't actually boil, right? They have you do it over a double boiler even. You cook it to the nappe stage, which is about 40 degrees south of boiling. hark, a pedant!
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| # ? Nov 09, 2009 14:58 |
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Stupid southerners don't even know what boiling means. Enjoy your extra chunky eggnog!
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| # ? Nov 09, 2009 15:08 |
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I see where they call it boiled custard, but you realize it doesn't actually boil, right? They have you do it over a double boiler even. You cook it to the nappe stage, which is about 40 degrees south of boiling. The new name and avatar really work when I read this. And yes, we know you don't actually boil it. You can yell at me all you want..it's still super tastey
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| # ? Nov 09, 2009 15:28 |
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang posted:The new name and avatar really work when I read this. And yes, we know you don't actually boil it. You can yell at me all you want..it's still super tastey I'm sure it's tasty. It's just another variation on a stirred custard. I'll probably try making it myself actually. Although I won't use a double boiler, cause those are for pussies who can't control the heat. In other news, the store bough nog that my wife picked is very mediocre. It doesn't help that it's sweetened with corn syrup.
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| # ? Nov 09, 2009 15:37 |
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The Lactaid Egg Nog tastes identical to regular egg nog. I love it.
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| # ? Nov 10, 2009 01:50 |
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If you can stand how sweet it is, this stuff is liquid cocaine.
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| # ? Nov 10, 2009 03:14 |
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mediaphage posted:If I'm forced to drink regular eggnog, I like the local dairy's. It's pretty fantastic. You talking about Trauth? Yeah, some of the best nog out there. I've already gone through 3 quarts this season (I have a serious eggnog problem).
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| # ? Nov 10, 2009 05:09 |
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It's not eggnog if I'm not risking salmonella poisoning while I drink it. Homemade all the way. Be wary of Stewart's recipe, it sneaks up on you and then does terribly lovely things to you.
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| # ? Nov 10, 2009 06:13 |
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Oh god how did I get here...
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More recipes! Here's one for the boozers... It was published in the Toronto Star last year from a restaurant called Grace. It's described as "dangerously deceptive" by the mixologist "because there's lots of spirits in it but you can't really tell". He recommends free-pouring the alcohol and covering heavy-handedness with more nutmeg. Uncle Al's Eggnog 6 eggs 1 cup sugar 1/2 tsp vanilla 1/4 tsp nutmeg 2 cups whole milk 2 cups heavy whipping cream 6 oz (3/4 cup) rum 6 oz brandy 3 oz vodka 12 oz Southern Comfort Chill everything before starting. Beat eggs until frothy then beat in sugar, vanilla and nutmeg. Slowly stir in milk, cream and liquor. Chill again and serve.
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| # ? Nov 10, 2009 06:14 |
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