Eggnog

Ingredients:

6 eggs
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 quart milk
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp cinnamon

Beat eggs, sugar and salt together in a saucepan. Stir in half the milk (2  cups). On low heat, cook until mixture is thick and thinly coats a  spoon. Make sure to stir constantly. Remove from heat and mix in the  last of the milk and the vanilla.

Cover and chill overnight. Serve eggnog with a dusting of nutmeg and cinnamon.

(From the Jane Austen Centre: http://www.janeausten.co.uk/here-we-come-a-wassailing and https://www.janeausten.co.uk/eggnog/)