The Ideal Bartender by Tom Bullock (1917, p.31) — Bullock 1917
| 1 egg | egg | base |
| sweet cider — Sweet Cider | dilution | |
| nutmeg — Grated on top. | other | |
| 1 teaspoonful | sugar | sweetener |
- Break a fresh egg into a large bar glass and add sugar and cracked ice.
- Fill with sweet cider, shake, strain into a tall, thin glass, grate nutmeg on top, and serve.
Garnish: Grated nutmeg
Ice: 4 lumps cracked ice
This matters because Bullock preserves the orchard branch of the eggnog family rather than only spirit-heavy holiday forms.
The cider base is the key historical fact and should not be normalized into a generic eggnog.