Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-05
10 BISON ON EGGNoG


Here's a recipe for eggnog that sounds
pretty good to me- he said. why don't
We ever have any eggnog in this plant
around the holidays, anyhow? Seems to me
like IT'S been million years since I've
tasted eggnog."
Well replied Mrs. Jobson. you know
the time you got sick from drinking eggnog,
ten or twelve years ago. you declared that
you'd never touch 1t again as long as you
lived. and forbade me to have any of it in
the house. and of course thought
Got sick from drinking eggnog?" broke
In Mr.. Jobson. with an expression OF the
most intense surprise on his face. 'Who
me? Are You talking of me-"
"Why. my DEAR observed Mrs. Jobson,
certainly I am talking of You, and surely
you must remember how
II never got sick from drinking eggnog In
this house, or in any other house, in the
whole course of my natural life, sterniy
cut in Mr.. Jobson, land l wish, madam.
that you would be good enough to rid your
self of this habit of fastening on to me
everything that you ever heard of as hap
pening to other people. Me get sick from
drinking eggnog? You might just as wei
say that last week got the bubonic plague
accompanied by symptoms of elephantlasls,
from minging too freely with the Tagalogs
in the province of Iioilo in the Philippines:
There'd be just about as much sense ana
truth in that kind of a statement
know eggnog is very sickening stuff if you
take too much of it. and
ooh. it is, is tiff you take too much OF
it?'' broke in Mr. Jobson. THE natural IN
ference is, then. that If we have some New
Year eggnog in this plant I'll drink ABOUT
fourteen gallons Of 1t, and jump through
one of the front windows, and try to KICK
the ears off two or three policemen anu
lampHghters, and show up on street In
an advanced stage of delirium tremens, and
wind up in the Police Court. and get sent
from there to the workhouse hospital, I'M
agining in my mania that I've been changed
into a hard-bofled egg, and that
"Oh, I didn't get quite so far as that.
replied Mrs. Jobson, with soothing smile;
'tbut. really there are plenty of other holi-
day drinks that would be so much better,
and that wouldn't cloy like eggnog. Now.
we could have some nice claret punch. Tor
instance and that
YES madam" rebuked = Mr.. Jobson
haughtily land we could have some nice
cambria tea or some nice sarSaparlla, or
some nice weiss beer or some nice choco-
late Soda or some nice pink lemonade, or
some nice vichy and milk or some nice
Hunyadi water or some nice onion ana mo- o.
lasses syrup or some nice nut sundaes. or
some nice any other old thing that you
might frame up with the deliberate purpose
of Tagging me from the idea of having the
thing that I want to have. But the thing
that I happen to want to have, Mrs Jobson.
is eggnog-e-g-g. egg, n-o-g, nog, eggnos,
and that's what I'm going to have were
going to have little eggnog celebration IN
this plant on New Year eve. and that's what
we're going to have. We're going to have
whole lot of eggnog, too. I'm going TO
make the eggnog myself. You won't nave
to worry yourself about it. You can go
right on reading that great soc1ologlcai
work by the Duchess while I'm engaged in
the manufacture of the eggnog. You can
invite Mr.. and Mrs. Kaystreet around mere
for New Year eve. Wen have game or
cards and sit up and wait for the advent
I
going to start something around this plant
and have a little fun. Everywhere L thrn
In these papers l find eggnog mentioned,
and yet there hasn't been drop of eggnog
in this house for a thousand years or so.
I'll buy all the materials myself and send
'em UP here. And / won't get sick, either:
Nobody ever got sick since the beginning or
the world from drinking good milk mixed
with good Iiauor and good eggs. That's just
a little bugaboo of the kind you ENJOY
springing every time l suggest anything
thatll make for little pleasure around
this camp. -,
On the evening of December 30 Mr.. job
son was as busy around the Jobson kitchen
| as one-armed paperhanger. He had all OF
his materials assembled in the Kitchen for
the manufacture Of eggnoS. He had Drought
| ali of the materials home In suit case.
| There were four quarts of sterillzed milk.
dozen country eggs. two quarts OF the pest
whisky, q quart of the finest white rum
and two pounds of sugar
Mrs. Jobson noticed the large amount OF
liouor Mr.. Jobson was Intending to put INTO
| the four quarts of milk H.,
Haven't you a bit too much Lquor? she
asked Mr. Jobson. II read that eggnog
recipe that you are following. and 1t states
| that to a gallon of milk only one quart OF
| whisky and pint of white rum should De
| added A..
Jobson." said Mr.. Jobson toploftily. as he
began to break the eggs and to beat the
whites in the bowl before beating the yolks.
That's SUNDAY school dn Klnd e OF eg Isnag
! what they say as to the amount of liquor
! to be put in things. You're not meant 70
take their sta tements seriously IN that re-
snect This is going to be man'S-slze egg
nog. not eggnog meant for an expert
ence meeting of the Home Mission Society;
! Only one quart of whisky and one pint OF
rum would get lost in whole ga a1S ,o OF
| that. There wouldn't even be an aroma OF
liquor to the stuff If I only put that much
| hard stuff in the milk Anyhow. DE good
em mgan 10 s this eggnog. I'm tax:
| ing all Of the responsibility for it. and II
anything goes wrong with 1t you can come
| down upon me, as you SO much ENJOY 90
| ing with your usual sarcastic remarks:
| Rut I'll promise you all the same, that
| it'll be the finest eggnog you ever tasted,
| and that there won't be headache in the
whole two gallons Of imo. II you drink
/ Mr. Jobson spent about two hours IN man
| ufacturing the eggnog, and he had an
| expression of vast pride on his face when
he finally placed the huge crock. filed al
| most to the brinl, out on the back porch to
| cool for twenty-four hours
| The Kaystreets showed up at the Jobson
| domicile an hour or after dinner on New
| Year eve and, over the card game, they
| began on the big crock along toward 10
| o'clock. 1t was pretty stiff; in fact, there
was so much liquor in 1t that the milk
could hardly be tasted.
| by Jove! but there's a bite to that"
| observed Mr.. Kaystreet, slipping his first
| glass and Mr.. Jobson looked delighted
Nothing namby- pambyish about that egg
! nog. is there?" he said. swelling up. If
| I'd ha' listened to Mrs. Jobson 1t would
have tasted like plain milk with a little
| spraying of denatured alcohol on the top
| of Ii. maybe, but I didn't happen to be
| listening to Mrs. Jobson when I manufac-
| tured that stuff. Have some more
| Mr. Kaystreet was delighted to have some
| more, and some more after that, but the
! two women exchanged glances Immediately
| they tasted the eggnog, and, as women in
| general are considerably more regardful of
| that "next-morning feeling than men. they
| went very light on the beverage. only pre-
tending to go to it literally to keep the two
| men in good humor.
Mr. Jobson and Mr.. Kaystreet Tapped up
| the eggnog as If it had been lemonphos-
| NV ~ oil n