Dry sherry

where can one buy reasonably priced sherry for cooking purposes?

jason’s charge 900nt, is this really the best price i’m going to get?

For cooking purposes wouldn’t cooking wine do just as well? It’s widely used, widely available and cheap.

I think I saw some at Tesco (???) but it were some time ago and I’ve drunk a lot since then… :blush:

it might have to.

can’t really describe why, but sherry seems to add more pazazzz.

a sharper, quicker sort of a taste.

In “Chinese food recipes” in the west, sherry is often recommended as a substitute if you don’t have Shaoxing wine. So presumably Shaoxing could be a passable substitute for sherry. I wouldn’t use clear-coloured rice wine though. That’s quite a different taste.

sweetness is the factor I think cf Japanese ‘mirin’

So are they recomended subsitute?

I made a sherry puding witch contained 1L cream (170NTD welcome) 1/2 milk (20-40?NTD welcome) 200g sugar, 16 leafs of gelatine. and 4dl sherry (75cc 700NTD Jasons)

The pudding cost me about 600NTD and I had a hard time explaining and justefy the cost to my bether half, but I was forgiven a litle when she and the in laws found out how good it tasted.

I have searched unsuccesfully for a bottle of sherry costing less than about NT$700-900. I have substituted Shaoxing wine, with success. So I recommend you try the latter.

I will give it a try.

The bigest chock for me is that I moved to asia and have truble finding spices :loco:

Just run a search for spices in the Food and WCIF fora, and you’ll be sure to find some good sources.

There are quite a few sherries at “Drinks”. drinks.com.tw/