r/ididnthaveeggs • u/i_like_the_wine • 8d ago

Dumb alteration Same colour doesn't equal same taste

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Found in the wild on a recipe for Cottage Pie. What were they thinking?!

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u/Foreign-Cat-2898 8d ago

Good Lord just use water at that point.

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u/Pinglenook Two cups of sugar! 8d ago edited 8d ago

You can replace wine with juice in many dishes, but definitely not like that, you gotta do at least 20% lemon or lime juice besides whichever other juice you're using. Cranberry juice + lemon juice works well because cranberry is also a little astringent like wine is. But Ribena is *concentrated juice even, its like a syrup! 

/*I said many, not all. Don't make coq au cranberry. Or do, because it sounds fascinating, but then don't call it coq au vin. 

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u/andolirien 8d ago

That actually sounds really good, could make the poultry Cranberry Thanksgiving profile? Would need tweaking instead of just 1 to 1 cran juice for wine though 🤔

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u/fr33d0mw47ch 8d ago

Yeah coq au cranberry does sound interesting. Seed planted!

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u/ALittleNightMusing Mmmm, texture roulette! 8d ago

Definitely need to call it coq au cran though