2 large eggs
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 quarts milk
2 tbls of vanilla extract
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 tsp of ground nutmeg
Take a large heavy pan and beat up the eggs, sugar and salt until fully mixed up. Then you need to gradually stir in half of the milk and cook at a low heat. Stir every now and again to allow the mixture to thicken. This will take about 25 minutes. Just make sure you don't allow the mixture to boil because this can cause it to curdle.
Take a large mixing bowl and add the above mixture, then stir in the vanilla, nutmeg and the second half of the milk. Cover the bowl and place in the fridge so that it can chill. A few hours should do nicely.
Whip up the cream so that soft peaks appear. Use a wire whisk and then fold the cream into the custard mixture gently. Now you have eggnog which you can serve in a 5 quart punch bowl. Sprinkle the top with some nutmeg.
To serve, in small bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat heavy or whipping cream until soft peaks form. with wire whisk, gently fold whipped cream into custard mixture. You should get about 16 servings out of this.
If you end up not wanting to drink all of your eggnog, you can look at some fun recipes that use it as an ingredient.
Eggnog Cookies
Cookies:
1 1/3 cups of softened butter
2 cups of sugar
2 eggs
2/3 cup eggnog
2 tsp of dark rum
4 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp of salt
Frosting:
4 tbls of softened butter
2 cups confectioners' sugar
2 teaspoons of rum
4-6 drops yellow food coloring (if desired)
3-4 tbls nutmeg flavored eggnog
To make the cookies just mix all of the ingredients together and wrap it up in cling film and place in the fridge for a couple of hours.
Place teaspoonfuls of the cookie mixture onto a cookie sheet that hasn't been greased. Place in an oven that have been preheated to 375F for roughly 12 minutes. You should be able to tell if the cookies are suitably baked if you press down on the center and you leave no indent. Just make sure you don't let the cookies get over-baked.
For the frosting you should mix up all the ingredients and use it to frost the cookies. Then dust very lightly with the nutmeg. Really, be very careful you don't use too much as many people aren't used to eating foods with it in. It might be wise to leave some of the cookies plain without the nutmeg.
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