Favorite eggnog

12/14/2013 | JohnnyP

[JohnnyP]

What's your favorite brand of eggnog? I'm looking for a new one.

Every year about this time I go pick up a couple half gallons of Original Recipe Alta Dena Eggnog. Well, I missed out last year, the stores stopped carrying it immediately after Christmas.

Yesterday I went on their website and looked for it, and saw it's been replaced by their "Holiday" Eggnog.

First ingredient is non fat milk, so I emailed them asking if they had just relabeled it, or if they had discontinued the original.

They were kind enough to get back to me with this:

"Both our Marketing and Research & Development teams at Dean Foods® are continually reviewing our flavor, packaging, and advertising offerings. At any given time, new concepts are being developed, and consumer focus groups are testing them. We appreciate your feedback and hope you continue to enjoy our products."

So, hoping for the best, I went out and picked up a couple quarts of the Holiday flavor. It was like water. Mrs. JohnnyP took a few sips and said "It's not worth the calories" and dumped her glass. I was fuming, but had paid good money, so I suffered through a couple glasses before dumping it ALL down the drain.

I took advantage to send them this feedback. He he. :)

"Please bring back the "Original Recipe" Eggnog. It was thick, creamy, and decadent. High in calories but worth it once a year.

My wife and I just tried the "Holiday" flavor and are very disappointed. It's like cheap Safeway or other low cost eggnog.

My wife took a couple sips of it and said it's not worth the calories. I drank a couple glasses of it then poured the rest down the drain in disgust.

Hope you do better next year.

Thanks very much for listening."

Last year I ended up with Southern Comfort brand eggnog, which was very good. Might be my new favorite.

[Domestic Church]

Find the closest local dairy store! Best eggnog I have ever had was from some very happy cows up the road about 10 miles. Now that I’m allergic to cow milk I use Silk holiday nog.

[VMI70]

Made 4 batches today!

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Egg Nog Recipe

VMI70 | December 1903 | Dr. Grafton Tyler

Posted on ‎12‎/‎15‎/‎2001‎ ‎3‎:‎58‎:‎56‎ ‎PM by VMI70

I want to share with all my fellow FReepers the recipe for what is probably the the greatest egg nog recipe ever. If you are a non drinker, move along, there is nothing to see here. If you are a drinker, even a heavy one, be very careful with this. It is a first cousin to rocket fuel.

Warning: this is a pain in the neck to make. It will take you a long time, about an hour and a half, but the results are well worth it. You will even make converts out of prople who are not egg nog fans.

Merry Christmas to all!!!

PS: Cheese goes very well with this. Also, put a small amount in a cup, and put it on your front porch. It may attract a Christmas moose or two.

Dr. Grafton Tyler's Egg Nog

First made in Washington, DC, circa 1903

Ingredients:

1 Qt Whipping Cream

1 Qt Bourbon Whiskey (bourbon, not sour mash)

1 Pt Whole Milk

1 Pt Brandy

1 Punch cup Rum

1 lb Pulverized sugar (Instant Dissolving)

12 Eggs

Makes about 1 1/2 gallons

Preparation:

1 Separate yolks & whites

2 Beat yolks until very light

3 Beat into the yolks, a little at a time, the sugar

4 Add slowly, the whiskey, brandy, & rum

5 Then add the milk

6 Then the whites of the eggs, beaten very stiff

7 Cream must be thick & beaten until as light as eggs, add last & mix thoroughly

[VMI70]

Addendum:

Make it a at least a week-10 days before consuming. Let it sit in the ice box; give it a shake daily so the flavors meld.

It seems to last a long time. My wife gives a bottle to her hairdresser, and a couple of years ago she said she drank her last cup on tax day!

[Georgia Girl 2]

“Last year I ended up with Southern Comfort brand eggnog”

I spent an ill advised night with Southern Comfort in college once and I still can’t look at the logo without a slight hurl reflex. :=) Somebody told me that its pretty tasty though. Maybe with a little Wild Turkey and a splash of brandy.

[thecodont]

Some of the best egg nog I’ve tried has been from a local SF Bay Area ice cream/candy store chain called Loard’s. For a while their egg nog contained raw eggs but neither I nor anyone else I know ever suffered any harm from it. Then I heard they pulled it due to salmonella concerns. Now they might have it again, but in pasteurized form. I’ll have to go check them out sometime between now and New Year’s.

[sauropod]

check this out

[Nuc 1.1]

In Va., there was a dary that made Marva Maid Egg Nog at Christmas. In all my 61 years it was the best I ever had. Real chunks of spices it was great. Southern Comfort is good but not great. You can keep hood. I think I will try making some of my own as I am not pleased with the available choices in my area.

[tioga]

Purity. Made in Ithaca, NY.

[concentric circles]

Broguiere's Farm Fresh Dairy. The cows are in Chino, the dairy
is in Montebello. They use no shortcuts, it's the real deal.

[txhurl]

1 Punch cup Rum

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Since there is ambiguity, I’m interpreting that as 8oz Rum.

I like Rocket Fuel.

[wardaddy]

Brand of eggnog??

That’s crazy

Down south we make it from scratch......cream.... eggs...bourbon...or mash or brandy....no not rum

Fresh grated nutmeg

Served in crystal or china (fine)

Made in your best punchbowl....Waterford.....Spode China....whatever

I will share our sacred family recipe anyone wants it

Folded eggnog.

My recipe goes back to our Great House past

Carton eggnog is fairly new from the 70s

[wardaddy]

Hear hear

For New Jersey that is pretty close to our old Mississippi recipe from 1820

I salute you!

[wardaddy]

Southern nog....similar to mine we’ve literally had in family since JQ Adams was president

Most here have no clue

Though I did just see someone from Jersey who gets it

Carton nog not is like comparing box wine to Bordeaux

Or Bud Lite to Sam Adams

[Black Agnes]

OK, give me the recipe.

No Waterford, Lennox will have to do.

[Rodamala]

The recipe I actually used when I was just a little eggnog drinker was from a kid's cookbook I bought from a book fair at school.

It was fairly straight forward:

1 raw egg
1 cup of full flavor, high-fat whole milk [NOTE: skim milk does not belong in anyone's refrigerator... Put the cream on your corn flakes, and feed the skim milk to the hogs and chickens. Hahahah!]
1 tablespoon of sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 dash of nutmeg

Put it all in a blender and blend until foamy.

It's a great recipe for kids. They can identify/connect with the different volume measurements used in every kitchen. They can also learn how to scale recipes without those nasty fractions. Mom will explain that if you make a batch for 3 people, 3 teaspoons of vanilla extract is the same as 1 tablespoon... (that's the "advanced lesson plan").

And for the "practical knowledge" aspect, Mom can explain that you use the same tablespoon (when tripling), measure out and add the sugar before the vanilla... so the sugar doesn't stick to the spoon.

Alternative recipe that I do not recommend:

Go to Wal*Mart and buy some Ultra-Pasteurized crap in a box that is made from corn syrup, food coloring, carageenan, guar gum, "natural and artifical" flavoring and aspartame (they put it in everything now, afterall). Next, stop at the township municipal building on the way home and vote for a Democrat... because you have no brains.

[VMI70]

8 oz must be a Texas sized punch cup. Here in VA, a really full punch cup is ~4 oz. Even so, it’s still rocket fuel.

[VMI70]

Amen. From what I have read, it seems to be a fairly standard receipt for the era.

Thank the Lord for electric mixers. I would have arms like the Hulk, if I had to make it the old fashioned way.

[txhurl]

I have to set aside an afternoon to make this... and bottle it. It may wind up being Christmas presents.

Now I just have to figure out what bottle/vessel to use.

[VMI70]

I use the 2 1/2 gal blue plastic “H2O Slimline container” from Wal-Mart. It will hold 2 batches. After you fill it, give it a shake once or twice a day as the cream will separate. After about a week, it will be ready to go.

I bottle it in 750 ml clear Bordeaux bottles from the local wine makers shop.

Tell the recipients to give it a shake before serving. I also warn my doctor friends to whom I give it not to do any kind of surgery within 48 hours of imbibing.

[pbmaltzman]

We got a quart of this stuff tonight at Safeway. Pretty good! Thanks for the recommendation!