Ingredients:

• 4 cups whole milk
• 1 can evaporated milk (cream)
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 tbs. cornstarch
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 egg yolks (some people might use more eggs but Momma never did like eggs so - plus this is better for your cholesterol too).
• Nutmeg to taste

Optional:

• Best whiskey or bourbon you got in the house

Place milk in a heavy pot and allow it to heat slowly over a low heat. Occasionally stir the milk after it begins to heat. Be careful not to let boil.

While the milk is heating, place the egg yokes in a medium size bowl and blend in the sugar. Add the sugar slowly and cream the mixture good each time you add more sugar. Add the cornstarch after adding all the sugar. If needed, you can add a little of the heated milk to make the eggs, sugar, and cornstarch easier to mix. The milk should be warm now.

Continue heating the milk to make it hot. Again, be careful not to let the milk boil. Add more milk to the egg, sugar, cornstarch mixture to make it liquid enough to pour. Stir the pot constantly while pouring the egg mixture into the pot of hot milk. You want to mix it good.

Remove the pot from the heat and stir in the evaporated milk, then stir in the vanilla and nutmeg. It's better to let the homemade eggnog sit a few minutes for the flavors to blend.

Pour the eggnog into the serving cups or glasses, and if preferred, add a teaspoonful of so of some good whiskey of bourbon.

Serve with love.

Everyone has to agree that the number one Christmas holiday beverage is eggnog. It's readily available in all the stores. Although, in the true spirit of holiday giving, taking the time to make and serve homemade dishes, made with love, is tops. One of the many holiday traditions in our home was for Momma to make homemade eggnog. On many a cold (as cold as it would get in Louisiana) December night our family would gravitate to the kitchen to watch Momma make, and anxiously wait for, homemade eggnog. The hot, smooth, spicy beverage verified for me that Christmas was indeed very near.

Naturally, Momma's eggnog was always the best. I can remember neighbors or friends sending over pots of their homemade eggnog. Creole people, as well as other cultures, make different foods to give to their neighbors and friends around the holidays. Somebody might make pecan pralines and send over. Somebody else might send a favorite pie or cake. Sweet potato pies, potato bread, a coconut and pineapple cake, and Momma's homemade eggnog were always on everybody's wish list.

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