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47. I see your eggnog and raise you boiled custard

Tue Dec 10, 2019, 02:29 AM

Dec 2019

Boiled custard is wonderful. For me it is the #1 nostalgia Christmas food.
We would have coconut cake, ambrosia and boiled custard for dessert at Christmas.
The ambrosia was fresh oranges, grapefruit, bananas, coconut, sometimes tangerines.
It is very traditional in the South since back in the olden days, true eggnog was made with whiskey, cream, eggs and sugar (the whiskey cooks the eggs)so the teetotalers in the South invented boiled custard so they could have a rich eggy milk drink without being cooked with whiskey.

It is sort of like zabaglioni sauce but it's thin enough to be drinkable. Of course despite the teetotalers, most folks have their custard with a teaspoon of "flavoring" ...guess what "Flavoring" is? ....

BOURBON of course!!

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