Anonymous
Post 02/04/2022 19:18     Subject: Does anyone drink sherry anymore?
Anonymous wrote:I drink it every night in the depths of winter. Cream sherry, very sweet, in a tiny sherry glass.


I like it as a cooking dinner drink. I lived in England as a child and my parents said whenever people came over in the afternoon they expected a sherry.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2022 19:16     Subject: Does anyone drink sherry anymore?
I drink it every night in the depths of winter. Cream sherry, very sweet, in a tiny sherry glass.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2022 19:11     Subject: Does anyone drink sherry anymore?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:haha, I asked a similar question awhile back about British drinking in older books - they are always drinking brandy. I don't know anyone who drinks brandy as their go-to drink when someone has had a shock or is chilled?

Or Claret. What's that?

I always thought Claret was old-fashioned speak for red wine. Like how you see pullet on old menus instead of chicken.


Claret is a particular style of red wine- a light Bordeaux traditionally. Pullet is specifically a young female who has never laid an egg-- now all we eat is young chicken(broilers are like 47 days old I think) but that used to be an important distinction before poultry production was so industrialized.

So enjoy some Claret with your pullet tonight!!

Anonymous
Post 02/04/2022 16:47     Subject: Does anyone drink sherry anymore?
Anonymous wrote:haha, I asked a similar question awhile back about British drinking in older books - they are always drinking brandy. I don't know anyone who drinks brandy as their go-to drink when someone has had a shock or is chilled?

Or Claret. What's that?

I always thought Claret was old-fashioned speak for red wine. Like how you see pullet on old menus instead of chicken.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2022 16:41     Subject: Does anyone drink sherry anymore?
I love Pedro Ximenez. I think of it as closer to port but see it in sherry sections. It is dessert in a glass though. Thick and sweet but a good one complex and delicious.

https://www.sherry.wine/sherry-wine/naturally-sweet/pedro-ximenez
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2022 15:59     Subject: Does anyone drink sherry anymore?
Anonymous wrote:haha, I asked a similar question awhile back about British drinking in older books - they are always drinking brandy. I don't know anyone who drinks brandy as their go-to drink when someone has had a shock or is chilled?

Or Claret. What's that?

I met him in a crowded room
Where people go to drink away their gloom
He sat me dawn and so began
The story of a charmless man

Educated the expensive way
He knows his claret from his beaujolais
I think he'd like to have been Ronnie Kray
But then nature didn't make him that way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1a_4CN4onA
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2022 15:52     Subject: Does anyone drink sherry anymore?
Anonymous wrote:Port and sherry are generally too sweet for me. A friend had a cherry port type wine once snd I thought that was okay, the tartness balanced the sweet.


Dry sherry isn't sweet. Sweet sherry is sweet.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2022 15:00     Subject: Re:Does anyone drink sherry anymore?
Anonymous wrote:It tastes like something that is an excellent addition to a stir fry sauce.


lol, I was going to say I keep a bottle for cooking.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2022 14:56     Subject: Does anyone drink sherry anymore?
Today is a very British winter day. The perfect day for a sherry! I wish I had some and I would toast my dear departed grandmother who loved a Bristol Creme Sherry.
Anonymous
Post 02/04/2022 14:44     Subject: Re:Does anyone drink sherry anymore?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think there's a difference between sherry you cook with and sherry you sip, no? I have cooking sherry and agree that it's sake-like. I recall taking sips of my parents' sherry around Christmas as a child (don't judge!) and thought it was sweet. There was also a church I went to growing up (St. Rose of Lima in Short Hills, NJ) that I'm pretty sure served sherry as the communion wine!


I was the MOH in a wedding there! Can’t confirm though as I’m Episcopalian and didn’t take Communion.

We have sherry around for lobster bisque and lobster risotto that we make on Christmas Eve. Harvey’s Bristol Cream. My mom used to drink it occasionally.


OP here. My mom also mentioned Harvey's Bristol Cream as something she liked to drink back in the 70s and 80s.