As promised in the WYFP diary last night ..
I was sipping and spooning (yes, spooning) my favorite egg nog on Christmas Eve night, I thought that I should share the recipe with others -- except that it takes at least overnight to make. And so Christmas Eve was just going to be too late. But - we still have New Years a week away. Plenty of time. But why just claim that my humble recipe (well, not really mine, it was lifted from some newspaper or magazine lost in the mists of New Years' cheer gone by) is the best? After all -- this is a reality based community here -- so shouldn't we test (and retest, and retest) the hypothesis? And since this is a competitive site, shouldn't others be allowed in on the fun (I mean science)?
So come below for the plan (and the rules, after all, we all need rules)... and a current (and future) poll.
So here is the plan:
- Post your egg nog recipe and instructions.
- Give it a name (I have already taken the words "magical" and "mystical" (as in "Pinecone's Magical Mystical Egg Nog), so you can't use those words). My contest. My rules.
- Now the fun part. Everybody - regardless of whether they post a recipe or not, gets to make one, two or all of the recipes, test them out on friends, neighbors, family, and unsuspecting Scrooges and Grinches of their choice.
- Should anybody take me up on this opportunity, then on New Years Day (need to provide ample testing time) I will check back in with a voting diary, listing all the recipes submitted, wherein you (and your favorite sock puppets) can vote on the #1 DKos Egg Nog recipe.
- One last thing ... (before I post my recipe), we will have two classes of recipe, spiked and virgin (we wouldn't want to leave sane and respectable members out of this).
So - Pinecone's Magical Mystical (If You Can Wait) Egg Nog recipe borrowed from someplace in the mists of time (for 10 to 15 [although I seem to be the main "tester" in the current household])
Ingredients:
- Two cups bourbon
- One and an eighth cups sugar
- Six large egg yolks
- Four cups of whipping cream
Directions:
- Mix the two cups of bourbon with the sugar and let sit for several hours - Overnight, "if you can wait."
- The next day (assuming you could wait), beat up the six egg yolks until they are "an ugly yellow." (I am not sure what color "ugly yellow" is supposed to be, so I just beat with a fork for five minutes or so.) Fold into the bourbon/sugar mixture and let sit for two hours (if you can wait).
- Whip up the whipping cream until stiff and fold into the bourbon/sugar/egg yolk mix. Let sit for an hour (if you can wait)
- Ladle out and drink (or eat with a spoon) and enjoy. Also goes nicely as a topping on pies, cakes, and ice cream.
And I may be naive, but I do believe that if President Obama had ever had the opportunity to negotiate with Republicans while they were sipping this, the whole "negotiating with idiots" thing would have worked much better.