What is the difference between egg nog and custard

And I could still put rum in it and work my alcohol in a bit earlier in the day. I can't stand the egg-nog out of a carton. The custurd is better but still has a gummy consistancy IMO. We've made our own custard for years. User C. Devlin » Tue Nov 25, pm carla griffin wrote: What's the difference between egg nog and custard? Custard was a pie filling base like sort of stuff. But in the dairy cooler, next to egg nog, in the same quart carton container, was custard.

The warm rich flavor will fill your mouth with the spirit of the holidays. Old-Fashioned Custard takes a lighter approach to flavor. It has a creamy vanilla flavor with just a touch of turmeric. Eggnog is spicier, often made with cinnamon, nutmeg, and mace. There can sometimes be alcohol in eggnog, which folks either love or hate. There is never any alcohol in boiled custard.

Although these two holiday drinks have similar ingredients, their tastes are far from being the same. The usual flavoring for boiled custard is vanilla, with the few exceptions when a bit of cinnamon is added as well. Eggnog has a sweeter taste than boiled custard, and some say it tastes like ice cream in a melted-liquid form.

When alcohol is added to eggnog, the taste of the drink changes, and turns into a more exotic flavor, with a complex and spicy tang. Most of the time eggnog has cinnamon, mace, nutmeg, vanilla added for flavor in varying quantities. And the flavor of the alcohol will change things up, the most common being rum. Not much, just a splash.

Eggnog and boiled custard are very different from one another in the way they are prepared. First off, one is heated and thickened, while the other is whipped cold and is about as thick as heavy cream. Boiled Custard is prepared with a double boiler. There's no need to wait until New Year's Eve, so let the ladling commence.

Eggnog doesn't occupy middle ground; people either love or hate the stuff. Let's focus on the lovers, shall we? Some of us begin drinking it daily as soon as it shows up in the markets, going so far as to purchase pint bottles that will fit into the cup holders in our one-horse open sleigh, or minivan.

For others, it's an indulgent treat reserved for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, and perhaps the only day of the year that tea-totalers look the other way when someone spikes the bowl with a bit of good Southern bourbon.

Some say that the only reason to even drink eggnog is to get that wee nip. The inimitable Eudora Welty was once asked whether it was fitting to serve her signature egg nog recipe without the whiskey, to which she replied, "A bird can't fly on just one wing. Related: 37 Spirited Holiday Cocktails. Eggnog is insanely rich, generously sweetened cream enriched with egg yolks and topped with billows of whipped cream or rafts of beaten egg whites.

Let's be honest; it's the raw eggs that turn some folks away, although these days not all eggnog concoctions contain eggs at all, must less raw ones. There is, for example, vegan eggnog, which is certainly an oxymoron.