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# Het Pint · Rampant Scotland

Recipes

# Het Pint

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*Traditional Scottish Recipes*
 *- Het Pint*

*Het Pint (literally "a hot pint) was used as a warmer for "first-footers" more than a century ago. It was carried in a copper kettle and offered to everyone they met on their first-footing rounds.*

## Ingredients

- 4 pints mild ale/beer

nutmeg

3 eggs

sugar to taste

1/2 pint whisky

## Method

Grind nutmeg into ale and bring to the point of boiling. Mix in the sugar (already dissolved in some cold ale) and eggs, taking care that they do not curdle. Pour in the whisky and bring the mixture nearly to boil. Then pour it briskly from one pot to another until the liquid becomes smooth and bright.

## Source

From Rampant Scotland, restored from the page as it stood on 9 August 2025. [Original page](https://web.archive.org/web/20250809023925/http://www.rampantscotland.com/recipes/bldev_recipe_hetpint.htm).

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