Kamikaze drink premade7/24/2023 To make this week’s cocktail, you will need: We came across this idea in Nigella Lawson’s book, Nigella Christmas and on a trip to France found a bottle of gingerbread syrup and ‘one or two’ bottles of Crémant du Loire for us to try the cocktail. As the original recipe for gingerbread can be dated back to before 1000AD, it is no surprise that it has spread across the world. Every country has their own version of a gingerbread product from cakes to biscuits and they are all served in a multitude of ways. We also enjoy making our own gingerbread men (and women) a tradition started by Queen Elizabeth I whose courtiers served them to visiting dignitaries. It comes in all forms and one of our favourites is Lebkuchen from Germany. Gingerbread is a long standing traditional item for Christmas. Since we started dating we have had a Christmas party every year that just seems to get bigger! We love having all our friends with us and now our friends are starting to have children, sharing the Christmas joy with them just makes it better! One thing we always try to do is have a signature festive cocktail to serve and this week’s cocktail of the week went down a storm when we served it up the Gingerbread Fizz. It is the Christmas Party season and sadly we have had to forgo our annual party as we are still with Rich’s parents. It is a superb drink to have for a party or to enjoy watching your favourite Christmas movie on Christmas Eve. For Calum it is Christmas in a glass, for Richard…not so much. When ready, pour the drink into a glass of choice and sprinkle with nutmeg, and there you have this week’s cocktail, Eggnog.Ĭalum’s recipe has been tried and tested over many years to try and recreate the store bought drink he used to get in Hong Kong. Once completed, chill the drink until cold. Start to add the milk to thin the mix out to the consistency of a milkshake. Mix together the cream, the egg mix and infused rum and heat the mix through to make custard. Once ready, mix the egg yolks with the 200g sugar. Take the orange zest, rum, cloves vanilla seed and the pinch of cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg into a jar and add the rum. More recently the mix has been used in coffee that has brought it to the masses. Others use rum (Caribbean and Puerto Rico), beer (German) and bourbon (South America). In the UK, the drink was popular with the aristocracy who used sherry. The drink appears to have been taken across the Atlantic where the term eggnog was first used in a poem. These possets were used a cold and flu remedies that made it a winter tradition. Some will have a particular tradition, no matter how random it is to others, or particular food, that makes their Christmas entirely! For Calum there are a few things that make it Christmas, the first is pork pie for breakfast on Christmas Day (Don’t ask)! and the second is our last cocktail of the week before Christmas, we give you Calum’s Eggnog!Įggnog is likely to date back to medieval Europe and was developed from a posset drink made with hot milk that was curdled with wine or ale and mixed with spices. There are always a few things that say Christmas to people.
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