Recipe for "advokaat"

NAME

     ADVOKAAT - Egg-cognac: a potent sweet alcoholic beverage
     Advokaat is the Dutch word for "egg cognac".  It  is  highly
     recommended  for  A.  I.  (Alcohol Imbibing) meetings.  This
     recipe is my modification of a recipe I obtained in  Poland.
     It makes a potent, superb advokaat (or egg-cognac). The milk
     and eggs are healthy, the sugar and alcohol are not.

INGREDIENTS (Serves 4-8)

     300 g     sugar
     25 g      vanilla sugar
     500 ml    milk
     9         egg yolks
     350 ml    95% grain alcohol

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Mix sugars.
          (2)  Boil milk with half of sugars for two minutes. Let
               it  cool down.  (For the milk it is easiest to use
               a pot which can later be used with a mixer.)
          (3)  Mix well (mixer at high speed) the yolks with  the
               other half of the sugars.
          (4)  Using mixer add to milk. Then (still using  mixer)
               add  alcohol  slowly.  (The result is quite fluid,
               sweet and strong.)
          (5)  Bottle and let rest for two weeks to let the  mix-
               ture thicken.

NOTES

     This advokaat can be drunk or,  better  yet,  eaten  with  a
     spoon: it is quite thick.

RATING

     Difficulty: easy.  Time:  5  minutes  preparation,  2  weeks
     aging.  Precision: Measure the ingredients.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Laurent Siklossy
     Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
     siklossy@cs.vu.nl