Five Holiday Drinks for People Who Despise Eggnog
No matter how hard I try, I just can’t bring myself to enjoy the egnog. I don’t mind eggs in cocktails, but there is something about a warm, viscous liquid that I just can’t refuse. As such, I’m always on the lookout for festive, warm drinks to drink and serve so that eggnog-haters like me aren’t left out of the cold.
VinePair has a few basic items like baby toys, Irish coffee and hot buttered rum (see recipes from the link below), but these are five of my favorites:
- Orange Hot Chocolate: I did develop this drunken slow cook hot chocolate for Yahoo Food last year and it is a true chocolate-rich miracle . You will need two types of chocolate (cocoa powder and dark chopped), two types of dairy products (whole milk and condensed milk), and some orange-flavored whiskey. Simply melt the chopped chocolate in the condensed milk, then put it in a multicooker and let it heat up along with the rest of the ingredients.
- Hot Chocolate with Red Wine: Continuing the chocolate theme, this recipe is a little simpler, but still intense and warming. Simply melt 1/3 cup chocolate chunks in 1 1/2 cups milk and add a cup of large, bold red wine. Drink from a mug in warm fluffy socks.
- Hot Ale Flip: Thiscolonial beer drink includes an egg and I love it in this context. For this fun concoction, beat an egg with a glass of rum and brandy and a little brown sugar syrup. Heat 8 ounces of dark malt beer on the stove (do not bring to a simmer) and then very slowly pour the hot beer into the egg mixture, whisking continuously. Pour it all back and forth between a couple of jugs to make it nice and frothy ( or try using a French press ). pour into circles and garnish with nutmeg.
- Ginger Mulled Wine: This is another recipe I came up with last year and is, in my humble opinion, the perfect combination of sweet, spicy, smoky and alcoholic. Take a bottle of some red wine mixture (don’t waste a lot here; you’re going to add a lot of other things to it) and pour it into a multicooker or large saucepan on the stove. Add two bottles of really good ginger beer (I like Reed’s and Cock & Bull), one lemon zest (in stripes), two mashed black cardamom pods, a cinnamon stick, and three cloves. Heat over low heat and serve. (Note: do not do this, as the linked article talks about heating “four hours on low or two hours on one high.” When I developed this recipe, I was working with a faulty slow cooker resulting in incorrect cooking times.)
- Coquito: Okay, so this is not warm, but this Per-Rican coconut – based drink is a serious, creamy, rum business. Coconut cream, condensed milk, and condensed milk are mixed with a couple of cups of rum, along with the addition of vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg. After mixing, put this dish in the refrigerator and let it cool down.
These drinks are so good that you can serve them even if you are a fan of gogol-gogol; There is no shame in serving more than one alcoholic beverage at a gala evening. (Yes, and if – for whatever reason – you want to make your own drink, but have problems with raw eggs, you can always pasteurize them with an immersion circulator .)
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