Word for Wednesday: Eggnog

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December’s Word for Wednesday theme is festive food and drink. 

So far we’ve looked at mulled wine and mince pies. The festive drink we have chosen to look at today is eggnog.

Traditionally served in North America during the Christmas season, eggnog is a punch made of an alcoholic liquor mixed with egg and sweetened milk or cream. Sometimes it is flavoured with spices such as cinnamon or nutmeg. Other historic names of this drink include ‘egg milk punch’ and ‘milk punch’.

Eggnog has been used in American English since around 1775. The word ‘egg’ dates to the mid-fourteenth century and comes from Old Norse. The word ‘nog’ dates to the 1690s and describes an ‘old, strong type of beer brewed in Norfolk’.
 


16 Dec 2020
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