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I usually add more "spice" but here is a the basics.
6 eggs
2 + ½ cups heavy whipping cream
2 cups whole milk
1 cup caster sugar
½ cup brandy
½ cup dark rum
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon nutmeg, ground or grated (fresh is best)

Begin with pre-chilled ingredients for the greatest end result.
In a medium bowl, beat the eggs together hard until they're very frothy.
Add sugar and continue beating.
Sprinkle in nutmeg and vanilla.
Continue beating.
A little at a time, add in the whipping cream, continuing to beat.
Again, only a little at a time, beat in the milk.
Finally, beat in the rum and brandy.
Give your arms a break from all that beating by putting the eggnog in the fridge to chill for 1 – 2 hours.
Serve cold.
 
i posted this in the original recipe thread... and if you are feeling super lazy, williams sonama makes a mulling spice mix that is a pretty good substitute.

mulled wine

*750ml bottle of red wine. it can be cheap but make sure its full bodied.
*2 lemons
*2 oranges
*1-2 shots of brandy/cognac
*2 tea bags of a fruity flavored tea
*whole cloves
*cinnamon sticks
*sugar

slice the lemons and oranges into really thin slices. pour the wine into a crockpot set on low. add the sliced fruit, cinnamon sticks and cloves. in the microwave, heat up two cups of tea. add sugar to the tea to your liking. then add the tea to the crockpot and leave simmering.
 
I've actually never had eggnog. Like, ever. I think it's more of an American kind of thing. I'd be keen to try it, although I can't see it being all that tasty in the roaring heat of our Summer. :p
 
My family always drinks Hot Toddies. Which are pretty gross, but I always have one anyways. :D

(Recipes for a "hot toddy" vary WILDLY, but here's ours)
Mug of hot water
BIG spoonful of Tom and Jerry's Mix (frozen foods section at the grocery store usually, or a lot of liquor stores will have it around the holidays, or you can make it at home, but I'm way too lazy)
Brandy and/or rum to taste (my family, being from WI, is heavy on the brandy, but I would go with a vanilla rum if available - I hate brandy, which why I hate this drink! lol)
Sprinkle of cinnamon and/or nutmeg on top

Voila! :)
 
I usually make chai or glüwein. I don't eat ice cream, and so I sure as hell don't drink its molten equivalent, egg nog.

MDAO's Christmas Chai:

1 Half gallon plain soymilk
6 Teabags
1 quart water
1 nutmeg
15 cloves
2 allspice
1 inch cinnamon stick
2 cardamom
a few black peppercorns
the juice from 1" cube of ginger.
1 cup brown sugar, preferably Okinawan style from an Asian food market. Or a couple tablespoons of molasses. Even better is 1 cup fresh squeezed cane juice, but who's got that?
Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum

Boil water. Steep tea according to directions in the water, then squeeze thoroughly and remove. Grind spices (besides ginger) in a spice or coffee mill. Put powder into a fine mesh infuser. Add soymilk to tea, then put in infuser and ginger juice. Infuse for a few minutes while heating. Serve in a punchbowl with a bottle of Captain Morgan's on the side.

MDAO's Christmas Glüwein:

1.5 L cheap sweet red table wine (wine in a box will do fine)
20 cloves
5~10 allspice
1 cinnamon stick
5 clementine tangerines, peeled and sliced in half at the equator
2 blood oranges, peeled and sliced in half at the equator
1 very sweet red grapefruit, if you can find one, sectioned and with all tough fibrous flesh removed
2 shots Triple Sec or orange schnapps

Combine all ingredients in a covered pot with a snug fitting lid, or a crock pot, and simmer for hours on very low heat. Spices are added whole. Keep covered whenever not serving, if you want it to remain alcoholic.
 
rant*N*rave said:
My family always drinks Hot Toddies. Which are pretty gross, but I always have one anyways. :D

(Recipes for a "hot toddy" vary WILDLY, but here's ours)
Mug of hot water
BIG spoonful of Tom and Jerry's Mix (frozen foods section at the grocery store usually, or a lot of liquor stores will have it around the holidays, or you can make it at home, but I'm way too lazy)
Brandy and/or rum to taste (my family, being from WI, is heavy on the brandy, but I would go with a vanilla rum if available - I hate brandy, which why I hate this drink! lol)
Sprinkle of cinnamon and/or nutmeg on top

Voila! :)
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that sounds more like a hot buttered rum.

hot toddy's are usually just hot water, bourbon, honey and lemon.
 
I'm really sorry to all you Northern Hemispherians but the mere thought of drinking/ingesting egg-nog makes me gag :(

Does anyone have a recipe that isn't so....high in cholesterol?? Or is that just how it's supposed to be? Also, do you ever have it warm? Or always cold?

I adore gluhwein though, and I make some whenever we go on ski holidays :)

My recipe:
*however much of boxed red wine
*about 10-15 cloves
*2-4 cinnamon sticks
*strips of lemon peel
*the juice of said lemon
*sugar, to taste

Heat it up and serve. Mmmmmmm warm glowing warming glow <3
I might try it with half-oranges in the mix next time, as MDAO's recipe has.

Also, MDAO your chai looks simply delicious!!!
 
^silk makes a soy version of egg nog. altho it might only be available regionally.
 
^^ Sounds a bit more palatable :)
But soy milk can still be pretty high in fat as well can't it? And anyway I'm more worried about the eggs and cream to be honest :D

Maybe that's just how eggnog's supposed to be? I'll just stick to ice-cold beer and white wine on Christmas Day =D
 
Hot Spiced Cider

*1 gallon REAL cider, not that fake watery from concentrate shit
*at least 1 pint bourbon or other whiskey (I use Knob Creek)
*3-4 shots orange liquer (I use Gran Marnier, but Cointreau or even tripple sec would work)
*spices (cinamon, cloves, nutmeg, and GINGER is a must) to taste, usually more than you think you need

heat and enjoy

note:this can be made non-alcoholic too, but its not as good
 
n3ophy7e said:
^^ Sounds a bit more palatable :)
But soy milk can still be pretty high in fat as well can't it? And anyway I'm more worried about the eggs and cream to be honest :D

Maybe that's just how eggnog's supposed to be? I'll just stick to ice-cold beer and white wine on Christmas Day =D
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its supposed to be fatty, its pretty much a custard. most people only drink a glass or so each holiday season. its not something you drink loads and loads of.
 
^actually, i looked it up and all hot drinks can be called hot toddies. but if you go to bar and order a hot toddy, you get what i described. regardless, alcohol is the only way i can make it thru xmas with my family :)
 
n3ophy7e said:
^^ Sounds a bit more palatable :)
But soy milk can still be pretty high in fat as well can't it? And anyway I'm more worried about the eggs and cream to be honest :D

Maybe that's just how eggnog's supposed to be? I'll just stick to ice-cold beer and white wine on Christmas Day =D
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Hot or Cold. Non -alcoholic, I can drink it cold. If it has alcohol in it, just seems to go down better warm.
 
i <3 making homemade eggnog! i use a recipe from "good eats" (alton brown).

if yer a bit squeamish about raw eggs, davidson's (?) puts out a pasteurized (still in the shell and all!). i only see them put out around the holidays. and yes, they're in the dairy case area.
 
MyDoorsAreOpen said:
I usually make chai or glüwein. I don't eat ice cream, and so I sure as hell don't drink its molten equivalent, egg nog.

MDAO's Christmas Chai:

1 Half gallon plain soymilk
6 Teabags
1 quart water
1 nutmeg
15 cloves
2 allspice
1 inch cinnamon stick
2 cardamom
a few black peppercorns
the juice from 1" cube of ginger.
1 cup brown sugar, preferably Okinawan style from an Asian food market. Or a couple tablespoons of molasses. Even better is 1 cup fresh squeezed cane juice, but who's got that?
Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum

Boil water. Steep tea according to directions in the water, then squeeze thoroughly and remove. Grind spices (besides ginger) in a spice or coffee mill. Put powder into a fine mesh infuser. Add soymilk to tea, then put in infuser and ginger juice. Infuse for a few minutes while heating. Serve in a punchbowl with a bottle of Captain Morgan's on the side.
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sounds bomb....traditional egg nogg grosses me out.
 
To those you don't dig the egg nog.

A friend made a coconut milk egg nog that is superb let me see if I can attain this...

MDAO I believe I am going to make your chia. Thanks for sharing!
 
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