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  Cooking wine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cooking wine typically available in North America and Europe is treated with salt as a preservative.
The salt in cooking wine inhibits the growth of the acetic acid producing microorganisms.
Nevertheless, the sale of cooking wine persists both as a tradition, and because in some areas (such as New York State), cooking wines are manufactured with a low alcohol content (<5%) and can be sold in grocery stores, whereas ordinary wines with higher alcohol content (>5%) can only be sold in liquor stores.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cooking_wine   (314 words)

  
 Cooking with Wine - DiWineTaste
Wine and cooking have always made a brilliant and tasty couple since the most ancient times and their bond is still alive today also thanks to the many combinations, old and new.
Wine's aromas and flavors, as well as its structure, are added to all the other ingredients of the recipe and this is the fundamental concept about using wine for cooking.
Wine is also used for the preparation of sauces to be used as a condiment for foods, in particular for the ones made of meat.
www.diwinetaste.com /dwt/en2004036.php   (2276 words)

  
 Wine, Wine in Cooking, Cooking with Wine
Wine has three main uses in the kitchen - as a marinade ingredient, as a cooking liquid, and as a flavoring in a finished dish.
The function of wine in cooking is to intensify, enhance and accent the flavor and aroma of food - not to mask the flavor of what you are cooking but rather to fortify it.
It should simmer with the food or in the sauce while it is being cooked; as the wine cooks, it reduces and becomes an extract which flavors.
whatscookingamerica.net /WineInCooking.htm   (1090 words)

  
 Welcome to the Detroit Wine Organization! Cooking with Wine...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
That means putting wine that has been opened and exposed to the elements for a few days into your lasagna is a bad idea...
When cooking with wine, remember the longer you cook a dish, the more the alcohol evaporates and the more the flavors concentrate, so choose one with characteristics you want added to your dish.
Marinating meat in wine makes it more tender and cuts down on the cooking time, then the resulting liquid can be used to make a sauce to pour over the meat and vegetables after cooking.
www.detroitwine.org /cooking.html   (355 words)

  
 Cooking with Italian Wine
Wine is commonly used to add a subtle flavoring or a powerful zest to a dish.
White wine should be cooked for a short amount of time to burn off the alcohol, but red wine needs to be reduced until almost all of the alcohol is evaporated.
Try to match the wine's flavor to the flavor of the food as much as you can because when the wine concentrates during cooking, a fruity wine will give a fruity taste to the dish, a sweet wine will add sweetness to the dish and a cooking wine will increase the saltiness of the dish.
www.italiancookingandliving.com /wine/tips/cooking_wine.html   (659 words)

  
 Cooking Wine Glossary Term   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Table wines, which do contain alcohol, can also be used as a cooking wine and differ from commercial cooking wines by the lack of salt and the limited shelf life after being opened.
Wines can be used in cooking to enhance or balance both the aroma and the natural flavors occurring in food.
A common Italian fortified wine similar to sherry is Marsala, which is a cooking wine used as a flavoring for the popular poultry dish known as Chicken Marsala.
www.recipetips.com /glossary-term/t--37344/cooking-wine.asp   (634 words)

  
 Substitutes for cooking wine
Salt was added to bottles of wine to discourage the cook from taking an occasional or frequent sip, and cooking wines were born.
The rule of thumb for cooking with wine is to use a good wine, something you would be happy drinking, and — if you're really fancy and organized — perhaps to cook your dish with the same wine that you will be serving at the table.
Cooking wines tend to be cheap, and a wine that you would be happy drinking is quite likely to be more expensive.
www.ochef.com /780.htm   (273 words)

  
 Hormel Foods - Knowledge - Cooking with Wine
Wines labeled “Cooking Wine” are typically salty and include other additives that may adversely affect the taste of your chosen menu.
After cooking, the meat is removed from the pan and a liquid such as wine, vinegar, stock, or juice is added to the remaining meat juices and bits.
Red wines are normally cooked for a longer period to turn the typically rich purple color of the red wine into a rich red color.
www.hormel.com /templates/knowledge/knowledge.asp?catitemid=57&id=579   (1153 words)

  
 Cooking Light - Cooking with Wine - Healthy Recipes and Menus
To me, the term cooking wine has two meanings: There's the wine you put in a dish, and -- equally as important -- the wine you sip while you cook.
Clearly there are far better choices than so-called "cooking Sherry" or other liquids commonly billed as "cooking wine." These are made of a thin, cheap base wine to which salt and food coloring have been added.
But since wine does not have a large amount of alcohol to begin with (generally 12 to 14 percent), the final amount of alcohol in a dish is not a problem for most people.
www.cookinglight.com /cooking/mp/wine/article/0,13803,428084,00.html   (723 words)

  
 Cooking With Wine
Their wines are inexpensive but do have all the basics you want—good fruit, enough tannin and texture to balance out, and a fair amount of structure.
Assemble the rest of the sauce ingredients requiring long cooking first, and marry them down by simmering, perhaps with a lesser but similarly charactered wine, until they are close to perfection and you are ready to add the finishing touch of the glass of great Bordeaux or Burgundy or the lush Sauternes.
To marry the wine with a dish requires a basic canvas to work with that unites all of the elements of the dish, and that all those elements be in balance and harmony with one another.
members.tripod.com /~BayGourmet/wine.html   (2661 words)

  
 Holland House Cooking Wine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Cooking wine is used as an ingredient; it is not meant to be consumed as a beverage, and is available in standard grocery stores.
A: Use Holland House Cooking Wine in the amount the recipe requires, but reduce the amount of added salt in your recipe, as Holland House Cooking Wines are seasoned with 1 teaspoon of salt per cup.
A: Holland House Cooking Wines are free of the eight FDA-designated allergenic ingredients, including milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, or soybeans.
www.cookingwine.com /pages/faqs.shtml   (667 words)

  
 COOKING WITH WINE
Choosing white wine for a fish, chicken, or pork dish, and red wine for a beef recipe may be too blasé for a chef, but at least it will keep you out of trouble.
Wine from the area often is underappreciated in non-Italian families, because the word “chianti” has been used in the past to describe mediocre-quality red wines produced outside Italy.
The wine is used to flavor meat or game-bird dishes, to poach peaches or other fruits, and to pour over the sponge cake in a proper English trifle.
www.privateclubs.com /archives/2000-sept-oct/food_cooking.htm   (2961 words)

  
 Wine Glossary - Cooking Wine
Cooking wine is sort of a holdover from prohibition.
Cooking wine seemed to be a reasonable compromise.
Sherry is a fortified (brandy-added) wine from the south of Spain.
www.wineintro.com /glossary/c/cookingwine.html   (450 words)

  
 The Nuances of Cooking with Wine
The use of wine as an ingredient is usually controlled by only a couple factors: white or red and what's open in the fridge.
Wine is a complex beverage and it's use in cooking has many implications.
Also, how to choose a wine to cook with (besides just using up that bottle in the back of the fridge), how to cook with it and what you can expect for results.
www.globalgourmet.com /food/egg/egg1197/cookwine.html   (314 words)

  
 Centerra Wine Company
Red wines should be served at cool room temperatures of 55°F - 65°F. This temperature can be achieved by placing the bottle in the refrigerator for a short period of time or in an ice bucket for 5 minutes.
Wine selection can be as unstructured as pouring a glass of what's on hand to go with whatever is in the refrigerator.
Wine should be used to enhance the flavors of food, not dominate them.
www.cwine.com /index.jsp?link=contactus/faqs.htm   (1384 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Cooking With Wine: Livres en anglais: Anne Willan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Wine, food's natural partner, is also integral to much of the world's best cooking.
Willan, founder of the renowned La Varenne cooking school and part-time Burgundy resident, is the ideal person to present her fascinating subject; the large-format book, illustrated throughout with color photos, proves to be a perfect vehicle for her lucid investigation.
Desserts like sweet-wine pastry dough and a red wine and walnut tart with cinnamon include wine in interesting and successful ways, while traditional wine-based sweets like zablione and tiramisu also receive their due.
www.amazon.fr /Cooking-Wine-Anne-Willan/dp/0810940833   (582 words)

  
 Cooking With Wine
ood and wine are wonderful a pairing - but in addition to having a glass of wine while cooking, there are many recipes that include wine as an ingredient.
Cooking wine is generally a poor quality generic wine with salt added to make it unsuitable form drinking.
Often the best wine to pair with any food is the wine used to prepare the dish.
www.mainstreetwine.us /cooking_with_wine.htm   (161 words)

  
 Wine.com - Buy Wine, Wine Clubs, Gift Baskets and more
These wines are made from organically grown grapes from vineyards dedicated to sustainable farming.
These wines will improve from additional bottle age, when properly stored, and may show the greatest potential to increase in value.
These wine ratings are based on a 100 point quality scale, and are selected by each publication's unique criteria.
www.wine.com   (251 words)

  
 montrealfood.com: Chinese Cooking Wine
Chinese cooking wine is a basic ingredient for sauces and marinades.
Chinese cooking wine is made from alcohol, water and salt.
Mix in a cup of water, a quarter cup each of of soy sauce and Chinese cooking wine (or dry white wine and a pinch of salt) and a tablespoon of sugar.
www.montrealfood.com /chwine.html   (507 words)

  
 Almaden Vineyards - Wine Basics - Cooking With Wine
Wine When used correctly, wines should intensify, enhance and accent the properties of your food, not overpower it.
A: It is not necessary to use expensive wines when cooking, as the most delicate flavor of the wine will be lost in the cooking process.
Wines are usually simmered to disperse the alcohol and mellow the flavor.
www.almaden.com /winebasics/cookingwithwine.htm   (510 words)

  
 Cooking : Culinary Q&A : Cooking with wine : Food Network
Think of all the flavors of wine and their differences: Zinfandels can have a raisin-like quality; a lighter-style white wine can be apple-like and citrus-flavored.
There are some general rules to cooking with wine, such as red wine with meat and white wine with fish, but they are always broken.
Be wary of cooking wine, which can be too salty or sweet and have a low alcohol content.
www.foodnetwork.com /food/ck_culinary_qa/article/0,1971,FOOD_9796_1702089,00.html   (361 words)

  
 RedOrbit - Science - Grape Expectations: Cooking With Wine a Sure Way to Enliven Dining Experience   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
When wine is used before as a marinade or during the cooking process, it can tenderize meat n plus, as the alcohol evaporates, the flavor intensifies.
Mountain Spirit Winery's Duet wine recently was selected to represent Colorado at a high-class eatery in Washington, D.C. Duet is a blend of viognier and chardonnay grapes.
The resulting wine is a premium dry white dinner wine that is touched with honeysuckle with peach overtones.
www.redorbit.com /news/science/449097/grape_expectations_cooking_with_wine_a_sure_way_to_enliven/index.html?source=r_science   (1112 words)

  
 Cooking Light - Wine Tasting - Healthy Recipes and Menus
No need to be intimidated by the wine list--here's a user-friendly guide to France's top wines.
Wine selections to make your next outdoor party the talk of the town.
When the right cheese meets the right wine, the right term for the result is a flavorful marriage.
www.cookinglight.com /cooking/mp/wine/article/0,13803,701902,00.html   (331 words)

  
 Cooking Vacations - Ciao
Cooking Vacations provides unique vacation adventures of food, wine and cooking classes in Italy at exclusive and beautiful properties, private villas, farmhouses and residences selected for their location and charm.
Her experience and passion for food and wine sparked her to pursue the idea of creating this unique cooking vacation adventure.
Italian cooking is a family experience and Cooking Vacations gives everyone the opportunity to experience the feeling of being Italian.
www.cooking-vacations.com /italy/ciao.shtml   (433 words)

  
 How to Choose a Cooking Wine
If you prefer to not use wine or alcohol in cooking, substitute a broth or another liquid ingredient from the recipe.
But the thing about the boxed wines is that once they are opened, no air gets to them that could alter the flavor.
If you are adding it to a pot of spaghetti sauce or stew, things that are cooked slowly, I would let this cook for about 30 minutes.
home.ivillage.com /cooking/technique/0,,2wc0,00.html   (391 words)

  
 Cooks.com - Recipes - Marsala Cooking Wine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This unique winetasting guide and notebook enables wine lovers to explore the fascinating world of wine in an organized way...
I've used red cooking wine instead of Marsala cooking wine and it came out good.
Other wines may be substituted for marsala depending on individual tastes.
www.cooks.com /rec/search/0,1-21,marsala_cooking_wine,FF.html   (137 words)

  
 Wine Accessories, Wine Cellars, Wine Books, Wine Racking and Wine Gifts - Wine Hardware, your online wine store.
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Wine Hardware has added hundreds of new titles to our extensive collection of wine literature.
A wine education kit with vials of essence that will educate your sense of smell and help you to speak about wine competently.
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 ShawGuides, Inc. | Cooking & Wine Schools-Recreational
Marguerite's Paris cooking school offers half-day programs featuring a market visit, a hands-on cooking course, and a gourmet lunch in a renovated 18th century farm house.
Regional Italian and Tuscan cooking in the kitchen of Badia a Coltibuono, an 11th century abbey and esteemed Chianti Classico winery.
Wine tours in 6 regions offer user-friendly wine education, a hands-on cooking lesson, culinary sidetrips, and nightly wine dinners.
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 VacuVin Rapid Ice Wine Chiller - Cooking.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It would probably be okay to use to keep the wine chilled.
We live in a rural area and use the wine chiller when we are going to someone's house for dinner.
Opening a bottle of wine can sometimes be a chore what with all...
www.cooking.speedera.net /products/shprodde.asp?SKU=103893   (276 words)

  
 Wine News: Cooking with Wine | The Cooking News
He is hosting a 1st Annual Galena Wine Lovers Weekend in April and he's here...
He is hosting a 1st Annual Galena Wine Lovers Weekend in April and he's here to give us a preview.
As part of the 1st Annual Galena Wine Lovers Weekend, corporate executive chef Michael Pivoney of Chicago's Signature Room restaurant will prepare a four-course dinner paired with wines from around the country on Saturday, April 1 (5 p.m.
www.thecookingnews.com /archives/005073.php   (314 words)

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