Admission, I love eggnog. When I was a kid my parents would get a couple cartons at a time, which they still had to ration, because I, like my 5 siblings, could easily drink a carton apiece. These days I make my own eggnog, and sadly must submit again to rationing, self-imposed this time, for the sake of my not-so-girlish-anymore figure. A reader suggested that eggnog would make a good ice cream, and once that idea lodged in my brain it never let go until the ice cream was made. Three cheers for all things eggnog! This recipe is similar to the eggnog recipe, but with a couple more egg yolks, and a slightly different milk to cream ratio. You could probably easily use already prepared eggnog, even the store-bought stuff. But if you’ve happened to spike it to the point of tasting the alcohol, it won’t churn into ice cream because the alcohol won’t freeze.

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