I have egg nog. Last week, I discovered I had a bottle of Southern Comfort. I’m told mixing them is tasty. I’ve tried it and had bad results. I suspect my ratio is off. What is the proper ratio of liquor to dairy?
For a recipe using 2 cups whole milk and 3 cups heavy cream:
1/2 cup bourbon
1/4 cup dark rum
1/4 cup Cognac
I pour about two fingers of bourbon then add the nog. I don’t use Southern Comfort. Even if it’s So Comfort brand egg nog. Try the bourbon with Luvel’s nog. It’s about as rich and heavenly as it gets. Throw a couple shakes of nutmeg and cinnamon in there. I throw an ice cube or two in there to thin it out.
I don’t have bourbon.
I’ve got
Southern Comfort
Cutty Sark
Canadian Club
Majorsky vodka
Guayacura (licor de damiana)
Cherry Heering
some wedding wine
and
White zinfandel
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I also have drambui.
I inherited all this booze from people who moved. I rarely drink and know nothing about alcohol. Though, even I know Majorsky is an inferior, shameful vodka.
Drambuie would probably go well with it. Not sure how much you should add, though.
Kahlua is wonderful in egg nog. You need to find some friends with Kahlua who are moving.
Cutty Sark or Canadian Club are both closer to bourbon than Southern Comfort. I mean, you are absolutely correct that neither is technically bourbon, but for the purposes of mixing it with eggnog for the traditional drink, the Canadian Club is going to be a fair equivalent.
EDIT: Drambuie is, IMHO, way too sweet to add to eggnog. But if that’s your thing, go for it.
If I am correct, it is only by sheer luck. I’m not even sure what bourbon is. I just know I don’t have a bottle that says “bourbon”
Step one: pour nog down drain.
Step two: drink alcohol.
enjoy!
Seriously, I never touch egg nog myself, but most of my friends who enjoy it would rather drink rum with it than just about any other liquor. None of the things on your list qualify, unfortunately…
thwartme
Bourbon is one of the four major types of whiskey:
Scotch
American
Canadian
Bourbon (named after Bourbon County, Kentucky)
I can’t even imagine Southern Comfort with eggnog. Rum, bourbon or whisky, sure…but Southern Comfort? The first and only time I drank SC was when I was seventeen years old. It tasted like cough syrup and after one large gulp I barfed my guts out. Yeah, I was young and stupid, and tastes change.
Maybe I’ll give it a try this season. I’ll let you know if it stays down this time.
the correct ratio of SC to eggnog is 0:1
if you absolutely must ruin your eggnog with alcohol, stick to something creamy like kahlua (as mentioned), or if that’s not an option, rum (as mentioned). anything else is sacrilege.
all this is moot, though, as eggnog is clearly made to be showered in, not drank.
Southern Comfort should only really be consumed with something lime or at least lemon-lime. To do otherwise is, as was mentioned above, basically like drinking cough syrup. I think you’ll probably want to turn elsewhere to make your egg nog taste less disgusting.
(Ugh! Egg nog!)
I am not a big drinker either, and just learned more from Walloon’s post than I’d ever previously known about whiskey. That said, Southern Comfort has been my choice to go with Egg Nog, on the recommendation of a colleague. A pint of the stuff lasted me about three holiday seasons.
As for proportions, I just made it up. A little Southern Comfort, a lot of Egg Nog - at least 3 to 1, maybe more. The alcohol should be more of a flavor than a dominant element. If it doesn’t taste right, adjust. Or maybe you just don’t like Southern Comfort for Egg Nog - obviously it’s not for everyone.
You don’t have any booze, so stop worrying. Toss all that stuff that you have and go buy a bottle of Mount Gay Eclipse rum. Add a shot of this to a cup of egg nog and Feliz Navidad!
I like Southern Comfort in my eggnog, to the degree that I like eggnog at all. I use a 1 ounce shot of SC per glass of eggnog. I have no idea what the ration would be for a punchbowl full of eggnog, as I’ve never prepared it that way. I drink just about one glass of eggnog per Christmas season and that’s all I ever want.
Mmmm… I bet it tastes a little like an eggnog latte, one of MY holiday favorites!
I had some last night mixed with Barenjager. Damn that was good, rather sweet, but yummy.
Cutty Sark is in fact Scotch, so not only is it not technically bourbon, it’s absolutely not bourbon.
Franky, I don’t think Southern Comfort even qualifies as whiskey - it’s a liqueur. It’s gets its whiskey-like color from the same stuff as Coca-Cola: caramel color.
On preview, what silenus says! You don’t have any booze, and you certainly don’t have anything that belongs in eggnog. Mount Gay is the way to go.