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Home made advocaat

(7 Posts)
jollyg Fri 02-Dec-16 10:20:11

Long time ago [40's] My mother had the most awful flu, and as I was expecting then she came to stay with us to help.

Guess what I caught it too!
She found a recipe for home made Advocaat.

It involved putting whole eggs into brandy, the eggs eventually dissolved, leaving the delicious drink.

I have looked at Dr Google but as now have drawn a blank.

Any help out there?

Lewlew Fri 02-Dec-16 10:23:19

I think it would be safer to just buy it. You can get store brand at a grocers for a fiver! Safer, too that messing real eggs no matter the amount of alcohol in the recipe.

Mix with some lemonade, lime cordial on ice and yum.. a snowball!

I do make home-made eggnog (US thingy) but make a cooked custard base vs using raw eggs.

Lewlew Fri 02-Dec-16 10:24:45

Oh, found one in the Guardian...

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/dec/21/make-your-own-advocaat-christmas-recipe

The ingredient costs seem to be higher than a fiver!

DaphneBroon Fri 02-Dec-16 10:29:07

Sounds like the sort f thing Toby Fairbrother might fancy marketing.
I once saw a demonstration on how to make your "own" Baileys. What a palaver, much easier and no more expensive to buy a bottle wine

jollyg Fri 02-Dec-16 10:47:15

Thanks. My Ma was never one to experiment with home brew, unlike me.

Any crap wine was put in the freezer to freeze the water content, and used to make Damson Gin. mine

Note the whole eggs ,dissolving shells, that to me is the crux of the reciepe.

Keep trying please

Lewlew Fri 02-Dec-16 13:04:57

Gosh, Jolly, I didn't catch that part. I thought you meant whole eggs without shells, but unbeaten LOL!

There's a piece here about the entire egg thing... hmmm. Brave soul you are!

www.thinkscotland.org/thinkculture/articles.html?read_full=12424

jollyg Fri 02-Dec-16 13:51:26

Lewiew

You are a star!

That reciepe sound right to me, and being a Scottish site , that resonates too