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Celebrations Quick Prep

Eggnog

Ingredients

  • 6 Eggs
  • ¾ tsp Salt
  • ⅔ cup Sugar for yolks
  • 6 tbsp Sugar for whites
  • 1 tbsp Vanilla
  • 1 drop Lemon Extract?
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon
  • 3 cups Milk
  • 2 cups whipping cream
  • Nutmeg (sprinkle on top at the end)

Directions

Separate the yolks and egg whites. Mix the yolks vigorously with the wire whisk for about a minute – they will turn much lighter yellow.
Whisk in ⅔ cup sugar and ½ teaspoon vanilla, whisking steadily. Add cinnamon, salt, and lemon extract while mixing then add 2 cups cream and 3 cups milk and whisk a bit more.

Beat the egg whites until they form soft peaks. (It will take ~3-5 minutes, even longer if you’re crazy enough to try whisking it by hand.

Add 6T sugar, one tablespoon at a time, as the mixer runs. Continue beating until the mixture forms stiff peaks, but still looks moist.

Gently fold the egg whites into the yolk/cream mixture. (If you whisk them in all of that nice fluffiness will be lost.) Sprinkle nutmeg on top.

Serve promptly.

Alternatively, you can mix up all the ingredients for rice pudding minus the rice to have a different spin on eggnog.

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Celebrations

Wassail

Basic

  • ¾ gallon Apple juice
  • ¼ gallon Orange juice
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp cloves

Substitutes/Additions

  • Pineapple juice
  • Cranberry juice
  • Orange slices
  • Whole orange
  • Apple slices
  • Cinnamon sticks
  • Whole cloves
  • Allspice
  • Nutmeg
  • Carmel sauce

Directions

Bring to a boil then simmer for 20 minutes to let the flavors blend. Keep warm over very low heat to let the aroma fill the house.

Wassail allows for a good dose of personalization. Cinnamon sticks or whole cloves can be substituted. Some of the orange juice can be replaced with other juices. Other spices can be added as desired such as Allspice or Nutmeg. If using carmel sauce it should be added in individual cups at the end, not in the main pot.

One festive version which presents very well uses only 1 cup of orange juice, cinnamon sticks, allspice and whole cloves stuck into a whole orange floating in the wassail as it simmers for 60 minutes before adding carmel sauce to the individual servings.