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Egg Nog

Egg Nog uses egg yolks and whipped whites with sugar, brandy or Jamaica rum, Madeira or brown sherry, and milk.

egg · brandy · sherry · holiday

Served in Bowl. Ice: Can be iced.

Variants (4)

Drinks, and How to Make Them by Yeatman & Co. (1879, p.13) — Newman Nogg's Nonpariel

3 wholeegg yolk — egg yolksbase
1 gillspirit — brandy or Jamaica rumbase
1 tablespoonCalisayine bitters — Calisayine Bittersbitter
3 pintmilk dilution
1 wine-glassmadeira or sherry — Madeira or brown sherrymodifier
3 wholeegg white — egg whitesother
nutmeg — A little grated nutmeg on top if iced.other
4 ouncesugar — powdered loaf sugarsweetener
  1. Beat the yolks and sugar well together.
  2. Add the brandy or Jamaica rum mixed with the bitters and the Madeira or brown sherry.
  3. Whip the whites to a stiff froth and beat them into the mixture, then stir in the milk.
  4. Ice if wished and grate a little nutmeg on top.

Garnish: Nutmeg

Ice: Can be iced

Louis' Mixed Drinks with Hints for the Care & Serving of Wines by Louis Muckensturm (1906, p.103)

1 liqueur-glassbrandy — Brandy or whiskeybase
1 teaspoonfulsugar — Sugarbase
milk — Rich milkdilution
2 dashescuracao — Curacaomodifier
1 liqueur-glasscream — Creamother
1 unitegg — Raw eggother
  1. Shake well, pour into a star-glass, fill the glass with rich milk, and serve.

Cheerio! A Book of Punches and Cocktails by Charles (1928, p.19)

1 ponybrandy base
1 glassmilk — fresh milkbase
1 raw eggegg — raw eggother
ice — Fill with ice.other
nutmeg — Grate on top.other
2 teaspoonfulssugar sweetener
  1. Add the milk, raw egg, sugar, brandy, and ice to a container.
  2. Shake thoroughly to combine, serve cold, and finish with a little grated nutmeg on top.

Garnish: Grated nutmeg

Ice: Ice

The Artistry of Mixing Drinks by Frank Meier (1936, p.56)

0.5 glassbrandy — Brandybase
1 unitegg — Eggbase
0.5 glassrum — Rumbase
1 glassmilk — Milkdilution
nutmeg — Nutmegother
1 teaspoonsugar — Sugarsweetener
  1. Shake well, strain into a tumbler, and serve with grated nutmeg if desired.

See also: Brandy Port Nog, Tom and Jerry

The text frames this as the Christmas and New Year's bowl of the Southern States of America.