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Eudora Welty’s Christmas EggnogA family holiday recipeBy Emily WallaceDecember 19, 2014“I haven’t given a thought to Christmas,” Eudora Welty wrote to her agent Diarmuid Russell in 1947, “except where to get a little whiskey for the eggnog. Better stir the brain.” Nevermind a casserole: Welty’s signature offering was a strong pitcher of nog. “We could always depend on that,” says her niece, Mary Alice White. “Eudora always brought it.”Welty inherited the recipe from her mother, Chestina, who in turn gave credit to Charles Dickens. ...