[Sca-cooks] Baileys, was Frittering Laurels

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Sue Clemenger:
>Or a sort of hot egg nog, without all the cream....
>--maire

A couple of webbed references are referring to advocaat as "Dutch 
Eggnog", and one or two recipes I saw did call for additional dairy 
product (evaporated milk, etc.), so the line if distinction may be 
blurry or intentionally blurred in some cases. Ya know, where 
somebody looks at the recipe and decides this thing is supposed to 
resemble egg nog and so therefore tweaks it in that direction? But 
the recipe Huette posted (which I also found online) seems to most 
resemble a slightly thinner, boozier version of zabaglione.

In response to my own question, is seems the commercial product comes 
in two main varieties, the "thick" version, which is, I suspect, the 
stuff Huette posted the recipe for, and an "export" version, which is 
thinner and more conducive to making mixed drinks of various sorts.

Thinking of this in sheer terms of the thickening power of egg yolks 
(and this is why I asked if you could pour the stuff), a standard 
formula for a poured custard like creme anglaise is twelve yolks to a 
quart of liquid. Huette's posted recipe involves ten yolks (no 
indication of size, though, and when you get up in the tens range, 
this could make a difference) to about 14 ounces of brandy. I'm not 
sure, offhand, how one quantifies "thickness" -- maybe when I'm more 
awake -- but I'd assume this to be significantly thicker than creme 
anglaise. Almost like a thick pancake batter in texture.

Adamantius

>
>Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
>
>>Am I alone in thinking this sounds rather like zabaglione? And Bols 
>>is a distillery that makes this as a commercial product? And just 
>>out of curiosity, is it pourable? It sounds like it'd be pretty 
>>thick...
>>
>>Adamantius
>>
>
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