I need advise with my recipes?!
There are so many recipes that call for various alcoholic beverages. I obviously can't afford to buy a liquior store. So, What would be the most prefered, versitile and/or most frequently used. I wouldn't know a good brand from a bad one since I am not a drinker. So please name brands. Thank you. I posted this earlier but I think it got in the wrong catagory.
Answers: I'm venturing out with my cooking and need advise.
There are so many recipes that call for various alcoholic beverages. I obviously can't afford to buy a liquior store. So, What would be the most prefered, versitile and/or most frequently used. I wouldn't know a good brand from a bad one since I am not a drinker. So please name brands. Thank you. I posted this earlier but I think it got in the wrong catagory.
Dry sherry is excellent to have around for cooking. I use it for recipes that ask for white wine or rice wine. It doesn't matter what brand and it doesn't have to be expensive since you are using it for cooking.
A cabernet or merlot is good for recipes that require red wine. Again, doesn't have to be expensive. Any brand will do.
Beer, however, should be good quality. Try a good German beer for any recipe that calls for that.
umm you can buy those little liquor bottles you dont need to buy the huge ones.The little take along ones that may be cheaper option?if you arent going to use the rest of it.
Tons of people just leave the liquor out...
There are many different flavors that you cannot substitute for but get a bottle of brandy (brandy is used to fortify wines like sherry, port, marsala and madiera). be careful it is flamable.
Buy the little 1 or 2 oz bottles. If know someone who does drink, take out what you need out of a reg size and sell the rest of the bottle to them. Try lots of recipes in a row that use the same liquer so you dont waste the bottle. Remember that liquer will keep for a good long while.
Cooking wines are usually much cheaper than drinking wines, so that shouldnt be too hard. Beer is relativly cheep anyways.
sometimes, if its not a MAIN ingredient or whatever, I use water....or if its irish cream, you can use the coffee creamer...
When it comes to those tiny bottles, they only make sense if you expect to only use that liquor flavoring only once or twice.... ever.
This stuff doesn't go bad and will keep for years barring unplanned 'evaporation.' (Evaporation in the sense that it disappears from where it is and mysteriously nobody owns up). When you figure out what it would cost to buy enough tiny bottles to fill one full-sized bottles, you'll find it's amazingly expensive...... kind of like the price posted in Canada for gasoline.... sounds cheap at first, until you realize that the price is by the liter and you have to multiply that price by about 4 to compare it to US gas. Scary the last time I did this.