Recipe for eggnog - a traditional New Year's cocktail

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Egg nog is an ingrained New Year's drink in the United States, which is described in Russian as "drunk eggnog". If the designations "creamy", "sweet", "spicy" and "heady" are to your liking, then you should definitely try the classic recipe for this drink on a winter gala evening.

What is eggnog

"Egg legs" is translated from English as "pot for eggs". This is a sweet mixture based on milk and raw chicken eggs. The cocktail is prepared both with alcohol and without alcohol. "Nog" is a strong ale that was originally used to make a drink. Currently, whiskey, rum, brandy, liquor, wine are used as alcohol-containing impurities according to the egg leg recipe. Everything is up to you. Egg nog is a close relative of the mogul-mogul cocktail common in the all-Slavic states.

From the history of occurrence

The eggnog recipe was invented in Scotland, and in the native land, the drink is mostly made for Christmascelebrations. The cocktail was especially famous in England, America, France. Most often, the drink is served as a dessert at meetings, receptions and expensive parties. In the Slavic countries, egg nog is quite rare in cocktail menus of restaurants.

The eggnog recipe reached its peak in the USA when, in the 19th century, bartender Jerry Thomas published several recipes for this drink in his popular book, where ale was replaced with rum and milk. In Jerry's interpretation, the drink is made without heating. And he repeatedly emphasized that in Scotland they came up with a hot eggnog cocktail, and the eggnog drink is the business of the Americans. In short, there is a difference.

But even in this version, the egg leg recipe was excluded from the International Register of the Bartending Association in 2012. The specific basis is unknown, probably due to the countless cooking options that claim to be authentic. And currently there are more than 5 dozen variations.

Strong spirits (rum, brandy, whiskey) in the Christmas cocktail began to be added in the USA. In Italy, cherry syrup is added; in Germany, eggs are replaced with egg liqueur. Everyone can come up with their own way of cooking, substituting one alcohol for another, for example, rum for vodka, or adding fruit or nut syrup. There are many variations of making a cocktail, but, as a rule, they change the alcohol-containing components and the combination of spices.

Egg Toe Classic

Let's take a look at the classic egg leg recipe.

Components:

• Eight egg yolks.
• 3/4 cupsugar.
• Two glasses of whole milk.
• Two cups of heavy cream.
• One and a half teaspoons of ground nutmeg.
• Pinch of cloves.
• 1/4 cup bourbon.
• 1/4 cup dark rum.

Cooking:

• Beat egg yolks and sugar thoroughly.
• Bring milk mixed with cream to a boil.
• While stirring, slowly pour the mixture of milk and cream into the yolks.
• Heat this liquid in a non-stick pot without boiling.
• Remove from heat and add remaining ingredients, stir thoroughly.
• Served in small cups topped with nutmeg.

If milk is replaced with cream, then the cocktail comes out more magnificent, and if alcohol is removed, then the drink comes out non-alcoholic. They also replace chicken eggs with quail eggs, in a ratio of one to five. If they like a sweet drink, then they simply add sugar.

Alcoholic drink without heating

Ingredients for the alcoholic egg leg recipe:

• One chicken egg.
• 60 ml cognac.
• 30ml dark rum.
• 80 ml milk.
• 15ml nut or sugar syrup.
• One cinnamon stick.
• Ice.

Cooking:

• Fill a shaker with ice and add cognac, dark rum, milk, nut syrup and egg, all shaken well.
• Filtered through a strainerdrink in a glass.
• Serve garnished with a cinnamon stick.

In some ways of making an egg leg, 1/2 of the volume of milk is changed to sparkling water or soda. The prepared cocktail is served in low glasses, similar to beer mugs, with a short straw. Egg legs are drunk immediately after production, while the foam is dense.

Egg Toe Spicy

Components:

• Twelve chicken eggs.
• Two liters of milk.
• 800 ml 20% cream.
• Two glasses of Cointreau.
• Two cups of sugar.
• 120ml Grand Marnier liqueur.
• Three pieces of vanilla pods.
• One teaspoon allspice.
• One teaspoon ground cardamom.
• Two star anise stars.
• One nutmeg.

Cooking:

• Mix milk and cream, add one glass of sugar, all the spices and bring to a boil.
• The eggs are beaten with the rest of the sugar.
• Egg mixture is poured into milk in small doses and beat with a mixer until fluffy.
• Then add Cointreau and Grand Marnier liqueurs and stir again.
• Serve the prepared cocktail hot.

Non-Alcohol Egg Legs

Ingredients for Non-Alcoholic Egg Leg Recipe:

• Two chicken eggs.
• 200 ml milk.
• 2-3 tablespoons of sugar.
• Two pinches of ground nutmeg.

You can add:

• Cinnamon.
• Vanillin or vanillasugar.

Cooking:

• The eggs are beaten into a dense foam with a blender.
• Milk is added little by little and sugar is added. And they beat again.
• Add nutmeg, cinnamon, vanillin or vanilla sugar.
• Cover with a lid and refrigerate for a couple of hours.
• Serve chilled.

Tricks for the perfect egg leg

• Eggs and milk for the drink are the freshest.
• The cream used creates a very creamy texture in the cocktail, but it can be omitted to avoid extra calories.
• Nutmeg is very important in the preparation of the drink, but it soon loses its flavor, so the nut is used freshly ground.
• Plain sugar is replaced with powdered sugar, as it dissolves better in yolks and makes the structure of the cocktail more homogeneous.
• When preparing a drink, beat the ingredients well for greater splendor.