Devonviolet Acres

[farmerjan]

4 days of misty sprinkly stuff and a couple of actual light showers gave us .4 rain. Last week we had .55 and 1.2 the week before. Still not up to where we really should be but getting better. We are supposed to get down in the teens tonight with a real freeze. Had a little ice on the top of the water in a bucket this morning. The last 4 days have been really raw and damp and chilly with this misty drizzle stuff. But it is Nov. and the colder weather has been very welcome by the hunters. Bow season was way too hot, now muzzle loader and then rifle. Alot of deer around. One of my farmers got a NICE 8 point white tail dressed at 186 lbs. with his bow. Impressive.

 

[babsbag]

I got 2" of rain this week and I am now officially ready for summer. Doesn't take much to make me happy. The goats are muddy, the dogs are muddier. Goats looked at me like I was crazy when I asked them to walk through the rain to get milked. I gave up, came to the house and had coffee and waited for the rain to stop. Stupid goats.

 

[Bruce]

Time to build that covered goat boardwalk

 

[Mike CHS]

I got 2" of rain this week and I am now officially ready for summer. Doesn't take much to make me happy. The goats are muddy, the dogs are muddier. Goats looked at me like I was crazy when I asked them to walk through the rain to get milked. I gave up, came to the house and had coffee and waited for the rain to stop. Stupid goats.

I just have to note that those "stupid goats" got their way though.

 

[Devonviolet]

I just have to note that those "stupid goats" got their way though.

Yeah, interesting how that happens, eh???

 

[babsbag]

Yes, they did get their way. I am thinking cattle prod is in order.

 

[Bruce]

Mama Wall's Eggnog

12 eggs, separated
12 heaping tablespoons sugar
12 shots whiskey (I use 6)
1 pint cream

Beat egg whites until stiff
Beat egg yolks, add sugar slowly
While beater is running, slowly add whiskey. Too fast and you will have scrambled eggs. The whiskey cooks the egg yolks.
Beat cream until stiff

In punch bowl, pour egg yolk mixture, fold in egg whites, then fold in whipped cream. Add a little milk.

Ladle into cups, top with nutmeg or cinnamon.
Mama Wall was born in 1877 and likely learned this from her mother.

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If ya'll make this, you will NEVER drink store bought nasty eggnog ever again. My Mother remembered Mama Wall making this eggnog on Christmas morning for breakfast. Everyone, even the little children drank it. My Grandmother made it every Christmas. We watched her make it to get the recipe. I always found it funny that my non drinking parents would drink the eggnog and let me have all I wanted. I wonder if they ever realized that as a little kid, I got sh!tfaced every Christmas!

Ingredients:


Eggs separated:
Whites whipped:
Egg yolks, sugar and 6 jiggers dark rum:
Cream whipped (a bit too much):
Ready to combine:
After egg whites folded in:
Cream folded in:
8 cups in the containers, plus 1 3/4 of the silver rimmed eggnog glasses (so designated by DW's parents who gave them to us when the moved to the retirement home)

In place of the extra booze I added 6 jiggers of skim milk (DW's lactaid). Very smoooooth and fluffy. I don't expect that fluffiness will last as it sits in the refrigerator. I can't imagine it with twice as much booze! @Baymule you drank this full strength as a kid?
Finished making it at 2:30, DW decided the sun was over the yardarm (though I had to explain not only what that meant but what a yardarm is). She was just staring at the bottom of her glass trying to figure out how to get the stuff out of the bottom

 

[Bruce]

One too many pictures!


Of course there is a bit of cleanup, and I'd already washed the mixer bowl between the yolk mixture and cream:

In Mama Wall's time, it was even more work. I whipped egg whites once with a whisk just to see what it was like. Same thing with cream. Takes forever, wears your arm out big time. I have NO idea how/why anyone even thought to try that!!

 

[Latestarter]

She was just staring at the bottom of her glass trying to figure out how to get the stuff out of the bottom

I'm assuming that it was so good she was wondering where it all went and how to get the very last of it? I imagine after a few glasses she'd not worry about it anymore.

 

[Bruce]

She knew where it all went! The foamy stuff doesn't like to slide out of the glass. I used my finger

She is lactose intolerant so I don't think she'll be hitting it too hard. And tomorrow is Humira night so no drinking then.

The contents of the containers in the refrigerator are already separating. Wouldn't be good to drink the foamy top part then fill a glass with the booze on the bottom! I think some shaking will be required prior to pouring the next glass.