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poptarts asked the following question:
is it the alcohol content? what can sherry be substituted with? is cooking sherry the non-alcoholic version? where can i find cooking sherry? is cooking sherry the same as rice wine?
is it the alcohol content? what can sherry be substituted with? is cooking sherry the non-alcoholic version? where can i find cooking sherry? is cooking sherry the same as rice wine?
November 3rd, 2009 at
You can buy sherry all kinds at the local supermarket. It should be on the isle that has the oils and vinagars
rice wine is wine made from rice it is very different.
Cooking sherry is low-quality sherry with salt added. There is no reason to buy cooking sherry. Just purchase any inexpensive sherry and this will give you better control over the sodium content of your food.
Equivalents
4 fl oz, 1/2 cup
Ingredient Substitutions
1/2 cup dry red or white wine. Or substitute Madeira, Marsala or port
It’s a wine that can be also serve as an apertif.
A fortified spanish wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain, wine ranging from very dry to sweet and from amber to brown.
It is also used as an ingredient to many foods.
there are types of sherry:
Fino is a pale straw and gold color, with a delicate crisp aroma (nutty). It is ideal with tapas, soups, seafood, fish, ham and mild cheese.
Manzanilla: Straw colored, has a crisp aroma, and it is dry and light. It is excellent with tapas, seafood, mild cheese, white fish and ham. It must be served chilled.
Cream Sherry is an Oloroso sweetened with rich Pedro Ximenez grapes. Its color is dark or very dark mahogany. Its aroma is round, crisp and velvety. An ideal dessert sherry.
Oloroso is initially dry, amber to mahogany in color with a strongly fragrant aroma. Full bodied (nutty). Very good before meals and with game and red meats.
Pale Cream is a smooth wine of pale or very pale color, with a Fino crisp aroma and a sweet taste. It is excellent to accompany foie-gras and fresh fruit salad.
Cream sherries are generally sweetened Amontillado or Oloroso and combine a deep mahogany-color with an intense aroma. Sweet and velvety, with full body.
Amontillado is amber in color, naturally dry but with a deep fresh nutty aroma. Smooth and full bodied. A wonderful aperitif and a good match for white meats, oily fish and mature cheese.
Palo Cortado is a hybrid of Fino and Oloroso as the yeast is allowed to develop and then die off. This produces a bright mahogany-colored wine with a hazelnut bouquet and a dry palate.
Medium is an amber to mahogany colored wine with a delicate bouquet and slightly sweet. It’s basically a sweetened Oloroso and also called brown, golden milk or rich Sherry.
Pedro Jimenez is made from one of the other types of Sherry grape. It is normally used to color and sweeten other sherries, but is also drunk on its own. Very sweet.
Moscatel or Moscat is a dark mahogany-colored wine, produced from the other grape variety used in Sherry. It is normally used to sweeten other sherries, and is a smooth, sweet wine with an aroma or raisins. Smooth texture but very sweet.
November 5th, 2009 at
Taking the first question last:
Sherry is not the same thing as rice wine. Sherry is (generally) grape wine that has been fortified with other liquors, such as brandy.
Sherry, like all wines, is categorized by its sweetness. The sweeter the wine, the less “dry” it is. So, the difference between a “dry” sherry and a “very dry” sherry is that a very dry sherry is less sweet.
Although sherry’s shelf life is stabilized by the addition of the other alcohol, it still doesn’t have much of a shelf life, so “cooking” sherry has salt and other additives to extend its shelf life.
I don’t recommend using cooking sherry. It is widely available, however, in grocery stores. You can buy a small bottle of sherry to use in your recipe from any decent liquor store and store in the fridge.