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Cooking With Wine

Many French or French-inspired recipes call for wine as an ingredient. Just as food and wine have a wonderful affinity at the table, so, too, do they work well in the kitchen.

The wine you cook with needs to be drinkable, but certainly not great. Here is a common sense rule: If you would not drink it, do not cook with it. This rules out the overpriced, denatured “cooking wine” found in supermarkets next to the Worcestershire Sauce.

Restaurants sometimes use the name of a wine on the menu in order to market a dish. You may see “Pinot Noir Sauce” in the menu description. This is unreliable. If the wines used in these recipes were that great, the restaurant would be serving them by the glass, not by the ladle.


Some swank restaurant might actually say “ Dom Pérignon Sauce” on its specials menu, but chances are that they are using whatever wine was opened in error the night before.

Good chefs know how to choose good quality, cost effective wines for cooking. Here is a list of frequently called-for wines for cooking:

Dry White Wine
Look for simple, fruity table wines like Chardonnay. Avoid sharp, acidic wines, excessively woody wines, and sweet wines.

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Dry Red Wine
Again, fruity and simple table wines are the way to go. Pinot Noir and Zinfandel are good choices. Pinot Noir is almost always low in tannin.

Sherry
True Spanish sherry adds considerable character when called for in a recipe. Avoid very dry fino Sherry and sweet cream Sherry.

Port
Ruby port, the least expensive type of Port, is probably the best for cooking. It is fruity and sweet, and will retain its color better than the more expensive Port types. Port is powerful stuff and should be used in modest amounts in dishes.

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Madeira
There are no substitutes when a recipes calls for Madeira. Madeira is a key component of France’s rich Sauce Périgourdine: a sinful concoction of foie gras, truffles, and demiglace. Madeira sauces have a particular affinity for beef, games, and mushroom dishes.

Marsala
This Sicilian fortified wine is a staple in southern Italian cooking. The label on a Marsala bottle will indicate whether it is dry or sweet. For cooking, the sweet style, with its richer flavor, is the better choice.

Vermouth
Always use white vermouth when cooking. The intense complex flavor of vermouth enhances many light seafood dishes.

Brandy
Cognac offers reliable and intense flavors to a dish and because “nip” sized bottles of brandy are readily available, this ingredient will not cost you a fortune.

Sparkling Wine
When you cook any sparkling wine, you will eliminate its primary qualities – bubbles and alcohol. Champagne as an ingredient is useful for its cachet value only. However, a simple French recipe sauce can benefit from the two remaining qualities of good Champagne – high acidity and yeast flavor.

About the Author:  Scott Harker is the publisher of several websites including: Information on the Grapefruit Diet, Information on Mutual Fund Investing, Grilled To Perfection - Barbecue, Bonsai For Beginners, and Growing Palm Trees.



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