White Egg Nogg
Origin: Clarksville, Tennessee
Source: Martha McCulloch-Williams, 1913
Ingredients
- 1 egg white
- salt
- 3 heaping spoonfuls sterilized cream
- 2 tablespoonfuls powdered sugar
- 1 gill French brandy
- 1 gill vermouth
Instructions
- Whip the white of a new laid egg as stiff as possible with the least suspicion of salt.
- Add to it three heaping spoonfuls of sterilized cream whipped light.
- Beat in two tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar.
- Then add a gill of the best French brandy.
- A variant is to omit the sugar and mix with the frothed egg and cream more than a gill of vermouth, using French or Italian, according to taste.