On Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:06:12 -0500 fogt.lafountain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> (1) the alcohol evaporates upon boiling;
Surprisingly, this isn't quite true. It takes awhile for all the
alcohol to be evaporated out. Here's some data I found long ago:
From USDA, Agricultural Research Service, 1989:
% ALC REMAINING PREPARATION
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100 Immediate consumption
70 Overnight storage
85 Boiling liquid, removed from heat
75 Flamed
Baked or simmered:
40 15 minutes
35 30 minutes
25 1 hour
20 1.5 hours
10 2 hours
Another interesting fact about alcohol content in cooking: Although
most dealcoholized wines and beers have small amounts of alcohol still
in them (and usually say so on the packaging), this amount is similar
to that which naturally occurs in fruit juices, such as orange juice.
So, if one can handle the small amounts of alcohol that naturally
occur in many foods, again, such as in orange juice, then these
dealcoholized wines should also not be a problem. YMMV.
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Michelle Dick artemis@xxxxxxxxx East Palo Alto, CA
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