Egg nog is my all
time favorite drink and I go hunting for it when it hits shelves right after Halloween. No need for me to booze it up
with rum or anything, I’m a fan of the thick, rich and super fattening egg grog in it’s original form. Many who know me
well have often wondered why I haven’t picked up on learning to make the drink on my own, but there’s something special
in the chase every holiday season to see which local supermarket will get it first. Besides I’d be huge and it would
probably lose its appeal if I had it every month of the year. Don’t you agree? Well today I decided to look up some
useless knowledge on the drink and recipes that I may one day attempt to make.
Kitchen Project has an excellent historical
account of the many names the drink is known under, for example egg-flip, egg-hot, egg and grog, and egg nog. Tracing
history back to the "Old World" and later to Colonial America it is interesting to see how the drink has
involved and continues to evolve even in other cultures. Listed below the article are several recipes, including a Mexican Egg Nog (known as Rompope) recipe which
requires the use of ground almonds. I’d love to get a swig of that. In any case, whether you like or hate the drink,
you can’t deny it is the beverage of the season.