Comments on: What We’re Drinking: Tom & Jerry* http://lupecboston.com/2010/12/22/what-were-drinking-tom-jerry/ Dismantling the patriarchy...one drink at a time! Thu, 02 May 2013 21:12:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Pink Lady http://lupecboston.com/2010/12/22/what-were-drinking-tom-jerry/#comment-1709 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:47:59 +0000 http://lupecboston.com/?p=1577#comment-1709 Yup! Enjoy!

]]> By: Rob Marais http://lupecboston.com/2010/12/22/what-were-drinking-tom-jerry/#comment-1707 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 01:08:49 +0000 http://lupecboston.com/?p=1577#comment-1707 What a shame that short thrift is given to the Southern alternative to eggnog at Christmastide, and something that was our Tennessee family’s traditional family tipple: boiled custard. Yeah, a bitch to make because it calls for constant stirring while cooking in a double boiler, but when properly made and chilled it is a silky sweet, eggy rich fluid with that lovely kiss of vanilla, and a superior carrier for that de rigeur shot of bourbon or Tennessee whiskey (commonly known down them thar parts as “flavoring”).

That dose of flavoring was the only spirit some of my conservative “Campbellite” forebears had all year. Evidently the non-observance of Christmas by The Church of Christ gave them licence to celebrate their own brand of it, and boiled custard with flavoring was therefore a relished treat. One great aunt was greatly enamored with her dose of flavoring in her boiled custard, to the point of always asking for “jes’ a tetch more flavorin’” in each serving.

]]> By: The Red Menace http://lupecboston.com/2010/12/22/what-were-drinking-tom-jerry/#comment-1703 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:27:32 +0000 http://lupecboston.com/?p=1577#comment-1703 Then the hot water/milk on top? I’ve been wanting to make one of these for a while!

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