Eggnog is historically also known as milk punch or egg milk punch when it is mixed with an alcoholic beverage. It’s a rich, chilled, creamy, and sweetened dairy drink traditionally created with milk and/or cream, sugar, whipped eggs which helps it gain it’s frothy texture, and sometimes mixed spirits. The origins of eggnog are highly debated as are the original ingredients used for it. The Oxford English Dictionary claims that nog was “a kind of strong beer brewed somewhere in East Anglia” But where and when did the term Eggnog originate from? The first time the term “eggnog” was ever used was in 1775 when Maryland clergyman and philologist Jonathan Boucher wrote a poem about the drink, which surprisingly was not published until thirty years after his death! The poem, which you’re bound to be curious about, went like this. “Fog-drams in the morn, or better still egg-nogg. At night hot-suppings, and at mid-day, grogg. My palate can regale” The first printed use of the term was in 1788 in the New-Jersey Journal of March 26th, which referred to a young man drinking a glass of eggnog. Eggnog may have developed from posset, a Medieval European beverage made with hot milk that curdled up when mixed with wine or ale and was then flavoured with spices. I may stick to beer.
Will Advocaat do? I love a good Snowball at Christmas Whence I return from a day of festive drinking I may well partake .
One Christmas at my nans Me and my brother nicked a bottle of advacaat and got really *******ed I was about 10 he was about 8 we had to go to bed to sleep it off
Strangely it was one of the only things I don’t remember me Gran having.... she normally just fed me and me best mate either creme de menthe and lemonade (as it was deemed not really alcohol) or dubonnet, the bottle of which was ceremonially dragged out every Christmas and then hidden away for the rest of the year! We were only about 8 or 9 too
