Substitute for dry sherry

lolly5648

I will be cooking a recipe which includes dry sherry for the sauce. As I only need around 3 tbs I dont what to buy a bottle. I think I have an old bottle of cream sherry hidden away somewhere but that might be too sweet. Can I use wine instead and if so, should I use red or white

Queenie

Yes, cream sherry would be sweeter. Yes you could substitute it with a red wine

Bogof_Babe

Aww, go on, treat yourself to a bottle of supermarket Amontillado. Christmas is coming, it will keep fine until then. Nothing quite like it for warming the carol singers, or the vicar .

Queenie

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Penelope_Penguin

Hi, it depends. What are you making? You might be able to substitiute for wine, sweet sherry, or leave it out altogether.

Let us know, and we'll give more advice!!

Penny. x

lolly5648

It is a Spanish recipe - chicken in an almond and sherry sauce

Penelope_Penguin

lolly5648 wrote:

It is a Spanish recipe - chicken in an almond and sherry sauce

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

So leaving out the sherry isn't an option, then! I'm plumping for the sweet sherry. Sounds yum, will there be some left over for us helpers?

Penny. x

tawnyowls

I cook a lot of Chinese food, and it's a staple ingredient, so I always keep a bottle handy. It's usually cheaper if you buy it as 'fortified wine' rather than sherry - I generally pay about £2.50 a bottle, and it keeps for ages.

lolly5648

tawnyowls wrote:

I cook a lot of Chinese food, and it's a staple ingredient, so I always keep a bottle handy. It's usually cheaper if you buy it as 'fortified wine' rather than sherry - I generally pay about £2.50 a bottle, and it keeps for ages.

Do you get this in a Chinese food shop or somewhere along the wine aisles in supermarkets?

tawnyowls

lolly5648 wrote:

Do you get this in a Chinese food shop or somewhere along the wine aisles in supermarkets?

The latter - it's used in Chinese cookery as a substitute for rice wine. Any of the big supermarkets should stock it. Usually found on the lower shelves in fairly unprepossessing screwtop bottles. The one I have at the mo is from Tesco - black label with Regency-looking chap posing above several Union Jacks, then the type (Medium Dry or Dry - I have both) and 'Fortified British Wine, Selected by Tesco). Quite high in alcohol - 15% - so you shouldn't need to refrigerate it.