What is an easy recipe for Cola de Mono?
Long tail Macaque monkey (photo by robstephaustralia - CC-BY)
The holiday beverage that Chileans enjoy during the Christmas holiday season is called Cola de Mono. Cola de Mono literally means Monkey Tail. People in Chile say it’s called Monkey tail because after you drink it you’ll be swinging from the trees like a monkey. Other origins of the name can be found here.
The main ingredients are milk, eggs, coffee and liquor. You can use Pisco or Aguardiente.
Here’s the recipe.
Ingredients
1 1/2 liters of milk
1 egg yolk
1 cup of sugar
3 heaping tablespoons of coffee
1 cup (250 ml) of Pisco or Aguardiente
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
Instructions
In a medium saucepan mix together one liter of milk, sugar, vanilla and cinnamon.
Bring to a boil and simmer for three minutes. Add the coffee and stir.
Remove from heat and add the beaten egg yolk, stirring continuously so it doesn’t curdle.
Add 1/2 liter of cold milk.
Let cool and add the Aguardiente or Pisco.
Place the mixture in the fridge to chill for a few hours.
Serve very cold.
Enjoy!
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My daughter-in-law and her family are from Peru and Pisco is, as I understand it, a Peruvian or at least a South American liqueur. Boy, that stuff is potent! My daughter-in-law routinely brings a bottle back from her frequent trips to Peru. This past Thanksgiving at my son’s house, her father decided we all needed to taste a shot of Pisco from the bottle currently resident upon my son’s kitchen shelf. And so the shot glass was duly passed around. When it came around to me, there was nothing for it but to belt it down best I could. So I did. Whew. It was definitely a memorable experience, that shot of Pisco. I think I can still feel it …. and I can definitely understand the swinging from the trees like a monkey! I’d make monkey sounds but I don’t know how to spell them.
Peruvians make their version of pisco but Pisco is Chilean
There are other explanations for the name. The one i knew is that it was a deformation of “colt de montt”. Read all about it here: http://www.nuestro.cl/notas/rescate/colamono_origen.htm [in Spanish]
Thank you for the very informative link.