Ian Osmond's Eggnog Recipe

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1. Have Lis ask if we have any eggs.
2. Answer in the affirmative.
3. Have Lis say that she wants you to make eggnog.
4. Separate four eggs.
5. Put the whites in the standing mixer, and turn it on. Put the yolks in a mixing bowl.
6. Pour some sugar in the mixing bowl. Look at the sugar, say, "what the heck," and pour some in the standing mixer, too. Turn the standing mixer up a little higher.
7. Whisk the yolks and sugar together until they're all lemony-yellow. Add some more sugar and whisk some more.
8. When the whites have turned into a very, very soft meringue -- a bit beyond just plain "foamy", but way before they become stiff, turn off the mixer.
9. Add some milk into the yolks and sugar. Whisk more.
10. Pour milk/yolk/sugar mixture into the whites, and turn the standing mixer to its lowest "stir" setting to combine.
11. Ask Lis if she's okay with us using tinned nutmeg, despite what Alton Brown said about always using freshly-grated nutmeg.
12. Have Lis point out that we have nutmegs, and why not just grate those?
13. Grate some nutmeg into the thing.
14. Ask Lis what kind of alcohol we should put into it.
15. Have Lis say that she's cool without any alcohol, but if I want to do stuff to mine, go ahead.
16. Don't bother with the alcohol.
17. Pour into the nifty glasses that Lis pulled out of the cabinet.
18. Drink.

Yummy.