beverage – Bryan's Cooking Site

Fresh Lemonade

Bryan — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 04:24:41 +0000

This drink can be made with bottled lemon juice, but it’s FAR better with fresh. I am in the habit of buying 5 lb bags of lemons and juicing them. This makes stronger juice as the machine extracts oil from the peel. When juicing ANY fruit or vegetable, wash it first!

Fresh Lemonade

1 cup lemon juice
3/4 cup sugar
1 tray ice cubes
water

Put the lemon juice, sugar, and ice cubes in a blender. Add water to about the 3/4 full mark and blend until ice is chopped. Stop and add more water to the top, and blend on low until mixed in.
Vary sugar and lemon to taste.

Tom & Jerry

Bryan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:44:44 +0000

I was in my late teens the first time Mom made this. She remembered her older brother Gordon making it in the winter and had vivid memories from her childhood. [Gordon was killed in a car accident when Mom was 9.] Gordon made her a version with just a splash of alcohol.

Mom found the recipe some place and we made it a few times. I’ll admit I wasn’t overly crazy about it (tastes like a warm eggnog) but I drank it with her anyway!

Tom & Jerry

12 eggs, separated
1 lb confectioner’s sugar, divided
2 cups sugar, divided
1 can condensed milk

Beat the egg whites until stiff. Fold in half of each sugar. Beat the yolks until thick. Add remaining sugar. Fold white mixture into yolk mixture. Refrigerate.

To make the drink: Put 1 jigger of whiskey and 1/2 jigger of rum or brandy into a coffee cup. Add 2 heaping Tbsp of batter. Fill with hot water, beating until smooth.

Light Eggnog

Bryan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:43:09 +0000

Mom made eggnog every Christmas. As a child it seemed like a lengthy process, and I remember she put it in a heavy cut-glass punch bowl (used only once each year). Dad would carry it out onto the back porch to chill it. [I grew up in Upstate NY!]

HOURS later (this was torture to a small child!) Dad would bring it in, and everyone would have a cup. As a small child I got a VERY small portion and always begged for more! YOW! It tasted great, but my parents had no interest in having a drunk child wandering around so begging got me no place.

This version is different from the original recipe – it called for 6 eggs, but Mom always used 9. If I recall correctly, she said 9 produced a much better volume. I also think she cut the alcohol down – I’ve seen similar recipes that call for more like 2 to 3 cups. I considered upping the rum but have never done so … as is it’s a pleasant beverage not a strong drink.

Light Eggnog

9 eggs, well beaten
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup rum
2 cups milk
2 cups heavy cream
1/8 tsp nutmeg

Beat eggs until as thick as mayonnaise. Gradually beat in sugar & then rum. Stir in milk and half the cream. Whip the remaining cream until stiff and fold into eggnog. Put in punch bowl and sprinkle with nutmeg.