SC - OT - the Ynys Fawr website
Lee-Gwen Booth
piglet006 at globalfreeway.com.au
Thu Apr 6 08:47:06 PDT 2000
Thanks for the idea. I'll check around to see if I can find it. However, given
that I live in the "boonies" of Southern Maryland, finding Marsala was a great
accomplishment! Again, I guess we do what we can with what we can find...
Kiri
CBlackwill at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/5/00 6:57:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> ekoogler at chesapeake.net writes:
>
> > However, in doing this recipe, I gathered from the notes
> > in the book that this may not have been what was being referenced, but, as
> I
> > indicated, a sweet Italian wine. I felt I did not know enough to go
> against
> > the
> > author's notes in the glossary, so followed what they said. I knew that,
> > given
> > the very distinctive taste of Retsina, that it would definitely modify the
> > taste
> > of the finished product.
>
> How about Vin Santo, an Italian sweet wine (from Tuscany) made from dried
> grapes? It is a very sweet dessert wine, and may be more along the lines of
> what you are looking for. Marsala is actually a fortified wine, and didn't
> arrive until the late 1700's (1770, if I am not mistaken). I am not sure
> when Vin Santo was created (though sweet dried grape wines have been around
> for a loooong time). Anyone?
>
> Balthazar of Blackmoor
>
> Such a strange fascination, as I wallow in waste
> That such a trivial victory could put a smile on your face.
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