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Audrey Saunders' Tom & Jerry

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Kara Newman
Kara Newman
Kara Newman
Kara Newman is an award-winning writer, book author and cocktail expert with more than a decade of experience in the drinks-writing world.
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Published 12/10/18
Tim Nusog

This drink’s cloud of spicy, warm booziness can make even the most winter-averse person melt at the prospect of a mugful. Audrey Saunders, the owner of New York City’s iconic Pegu Club, where the Tom & Jerry has been made every year since the bar opened in 2005, says, “Everyone is so worried about maintaining the loft of the batter, but here’s a little secret: The batter doesn't need to be stable at all. It turns out it’s easier to work with once it collapses.”

This recipe originally appeared as part of “Give Eggnog the Year Off. The Tom & Jerry Is the Holiday Cocktail of Your Dreams.”

Ingredients

  • 2 oz Tom & Jerry batter*
  • 1 oz Plantation Barbados rum
  • 1 oz Pierre Ferrand Ambre cognac
  • 6 oz Milk, heated
  • Garnish: Grated nutmeg

Steps

  1. Place the batter in a preheated 10 oz Irish Coffee mug.

  2. Add the rum and cognac.

  3. Heat the milk with a hot pot (or in a saucepan).

  4. Briskly stir the batter with a short whisk or spoon while adding the heated milk so that the ingredients are beaten together.

  5. Top with freshly grated nutmeg.

  6. *Tom & Jerry batter: Separate yolks and whites of 12 eggs. Run egg whites through a food processor until stiff. Transfer to a bowl. Run egg yolks until through a food processor until they are thin as water. While the food processor is running, add 2 lbs white sugar, 1 tsp ground cinnamon, 1/2 tsp ground allspice, 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg, 1/2 tsp ground cloves, 2 oz añejo rum (like Plantation Barbados), 6 tbsp fine Madagascar vanilla extract and 4 dashes Angostura bitters to egg yolks. Add egg whites back into egg yolk mixture and whisk together. Store inside a sterilized container in refrigerator.