Baking does remove the actual alcohol-- at the same temperature, alcohol will leave something even faster than water, so imagine if you put that much water (just loose, like in a muffin tin or something) in the oven at that temperature for that length of time... Or if you're worried I suppose you could just do the experiment, with whiskey or water, depending on your alcohol budget. But I can't imagine that 1 cup of whiskey cooked in a medium oven for at least half an hour would survive at all.
There are issues with deserts with alcohol when alcohol is added when things are comparatively cool. For example, adding alcohol to a sauce that had just been taken off the stove would result in a little bit of the alcohol evaporating from the heat of the sauce, but much of it would remain (because the sauce isn't hot enough to burn off all the alcohol), and so you'd not want to give that to your boy.
I like cooking with alcohol because I like the flavours (most commonly it'll be wine in a stew or soup), but I don't terribly much like *eating* things with alcohol.
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6/2/10 04:23 (UTC)Baking does remove the actual alcohol-- at the same temperature, alcohol will leave something even faster than water, so imagine if you put that much water (just loose, like in a muffin tin or something) in the oven at that temperature for that length of time... Or if you're worried I suppose you could just do the experiment, with whiskey or water, depending on your alcohol budget. But I can't imagine that 1 cup of whiskey cooked in a medium oven for at least half an hour would survive at all.
There are issues with deserts with alcohol when alcohol is added when things are comparatively cool. For example, adding alcohol to a sauce that had just been taken off the stove would result in a little bit of the alcohol evaporating from the heat of the sauce, but much of it would remain (because the sauce isn't hot enough to burn off all the alcohol), and so you'd not want to give that to your boy.
I like cooking with alcohol because I like the flavours (most commonly it'll be wine in a stew or soup), but I don't terribly much like *eating* things with alcohol.