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What about a "Beautifully cut cut glass glass"?

No I mean I don't drink with strangers and I don't know Mr Beef or Mrs Relish.

According to one web site, you can add vermouth and oregano to chicken before baking it, as a sort of marinade. However, vermouth can also be added (along with olives, lemon juice, rosemary, etc.) to roast pork. Lamb and crab are also supposed to taste good wyhen cooked with vermouth.

Wikipedia tries to clarify the matter, but only makes it seem more complicated. It says that not all French vermouths are white. Italian vermouths tend to be red.

I've also used vermouth as a substitute for lime juice in marinades and salsas. Nice.

i found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermouth

which seems useful

I saw that, too, Pierce. Vermouth seems to be like brandy or sherry in that it starts as a recognable type of wine, and then somebody does stuff to it to make it something else.

I like recognable wine

I made a typo. Sorry about that.

Dear Pierce the Pirate,

Thank you for that wonderful lead on vermouth. I knew it was a fortified wine, and we always had the three kinds of vermouth, sweet(dark),dry(yellow) and Noilly Prat.

My late husband used to make the most potent martinis with gin and a "whiff" of noilly Prat. I could not drink them

Which reminds me about a visit to the Grand Canyon.

WE had lunch at a restaurant there and my spouse gave me a margharita. I absolutely loved it and asked for another Unfortunately he ordered it for me.

Talk about being legless 0 A man from the tourist bus had to help my husband balance me and I absolutely lurched back to the bus, balanced between them

What dissolute wonderfully happy days.
Ah well, I have marvellous memories that is for sure, and this site brings so many of them back.

With affection

Christiane
AR80

6/II/2010 5.04 GMT

Dear Paul,

Vermouth is an aperitif and your can drink it in any number of ways. As it is only wine which is"seasoned" with various herbs and spices it is definitely very good for you.
You can also use it, as you suggest, for various culinary purposes.
They must have it in the USA. It does not have a very high alcholic content.
Are you going on holiday somewhere? I have a feeling that you are.

Go well,

Christiane
AR80

6/II/2010 5.00 GMT

Dearest Christiane

It is a great pleasure to be able to bring back fond memories from long ago

As for wine that is changed you should also try madeira if you haven't yet, paul. It has been neglected for years but I believe it is having a renaissance now

Basically it is wine (from the island Madeira in the Atlantic Ocean) that is heated and shaken for some time

Shaken but not stirred. I know vermouth; the ex wife used to drink it by the bucketful, fortunately it wasn't very expensive.

doesn't go well with though

i'll just have this

Some years ago I became fond of a Flanders & Swann song called "Have some madeira, my dear." This sent me to the nearest package store for a bottle of the stuff. I liked it.

I bought some Vermouth

How did it taste?

Gis a chance I'm eatin my choci bickies.

Fine. I can sit here quietly awaiting the momentous news.

*tries not to get in the way of the momentous news *

Yes tastes like..... herbs and perfume. Mmmm not used to this, a bit creamy and warm.

I do ale tasting mostly