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- Subject: RECIPE: Hopkins Neolithic Egg Nog
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- Date: 19 Dec 86 02:48:32 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE EGGNOG2 L "16 Dec 85" 1986
- .RZ "HOPKINS NEOLITHIC EGG NOG" "Traditional layered eggnog with bourbon and dark rum"
- This is the egg nog that was served at the Hopkins Neolithic Xmas Party, a
- party that some friends used to have every year. We now serve it for our
- Winter Solstice celebration. It's purported to come from the original Fanny
- Farmer Cookbook.
- .IH "Serves 15\-20, inebriates 6"
- .IG "12" "egg whites"
- .IG "\(12 cup" "sugar" "100 g"
- .IG "12" "egg yolks"
- .IG "1 cup" "sugar" "200 g"
- .IG "\(14 tsp" "salt" "1 ml"
- .IG "4 cups" "heavy cream, beaten" "1 l"
- .IG "4 cups" "milk" "1 l"
- .IG "4 cups" "Bourbon" "1 l"
- .IG "1 cup" "dark rum" "250 ml"
- .I e.g.,
- Myers's Rum
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Beat whites stiff; beat in
- .AB "\(12 cup" "100 g"
- sugar.
- .SK 2
- Beat yolks until very light with
- .AB "1 cup" "200 g"
- sugar, and salt.
- .SK 3
- Combine and stir until thoroughly blended.
- .SK 4
- Add cream, then milk, then Bourbon.
- .SK 5
- Beat well.
- .SK 6
- Add rum.
- .SK 7
- Store in a cold cellar for a week.
- .NX
- Serve with freshly-grated nutmeg.
- The egg nog should be ladled from the bottom of the
- bowl, and never stirred, in order to maintain its layered quality.
- .PP
- An alternate method, preferred by some, is to make a creamy, non-layered egg
- nog by stirring gently every day.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- 5\-10 minutes preparation; 1 week aging.
- .I Precision:
- Approximate measurement OK.
- .WR
- Ed Gould
- mt Xinu, Berkeley, California, USA
- {ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed
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