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What is Cream Sherry?

18 years ago

Hi Everyone,

I saw a recipe for a seafood dish and it calls for 1/4 cup of cream sherry? What is this? Is it found in the supermarket or is it liquor found in the liquor store? Is there a brand name I should be looking for? Thank you.

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Daisyduckworth
18 years ago
I'm not a sherry expert, but I am familiar with dry sherry, sweet sherry and cream sherry. Of these, cream sherry is usually used in dessert dishes - though from your recipe, obviously in seafood recipes too! If you have it, just use a sweet sherry instead, though that's mainly used in dessert recipes. I'd be inclined to use a dry sherry which is what I use (or used to use, when I cooked!) in Asian dishes.

The following site might just help you more.

Here is a link that might be useful: sherry info
donnar57
18 years ago
I've found cream sherry in the grocery store, but it depends on the wine section. I've also found it in the wine section at our local chain drug stores, but admittedly I haven't looked recently (since SavOn became CVS).

DonnaR/CA
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earthlydelights
18 years ago
sherry is a wine that after fermentation it is fortified with brandy.

the one you might be familiar with would be harvey's bristol cream (?) in my state, we have to go to a liquor store, but i know other states you can buy alcohol in the grocery markets.

what's the dish you are considering preparing?

maryanne
lindac
18 years ago
As Maryanne said sherry is a wine that is fortified with brandy, contains slightly more alcohol than say, chablis, and consequently has a longer shelf life.
Sherry comes in 2 varieties, sweet or creame sherry and dry or cocktail sherry. It is a regular wine not a cooking wine...although you might find some laced with salt in the vinegar section of your grocery store....don't buy it it's nasty!
You will find sherry whereever you can buy wine. It gives a very distinctive taste to foods. I like it in cream sauces, mushroom soup, some seafood dishes and a certain chicken stew I make.
Linda C
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18 years ago
The nice thing about cooking with real sherry is that you can drink it too! Clive loves cream sherry on the rocks after dinner.

I use sherry in my French Onion Soup and in several Chinese dishes , I also use it in seafood dishes, not fish but lobster, shrimp, crab etc.

I use what ever I have, cream or dry, interchangeably in cooking BUT never, ever, use the the stuff you find in the regular food section of your grocery store. Truly it is nasty stuff.

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