Mead

[craig1459]

It's a terrible waste I know, but I was looking at my bottle of homemade mead as I was pouring it and thinking - can I cook with this?

Any ideas?

[Drachelis]

Course you can cook with mead - dry one for savoury - just like wine -sweet for desserts.

Try using some mead in with orange or cranberrrys or ginger with duck - it is also good in a sweet and sour sauce lovely with apricots for a twist on bread and butter pudding again with orange for crepe suzette or the like. Soak dried fruit in it before putting into a fruitcake - mead ice cream is good too.

Just let your imagination wander and experiment



Cheryl
Shadowlight Designs

[craig1459]

Thank you

Yeh - it's basically a wine, albeit a strong one, so thought similar rules would apply. My mead - and it's my first go - is a bit weedy taste wise for cooking. I may have crack when I either get some moniac or make more robust HB.

Are there any C15 recipes for it?

[Gyrthofhwicce]

Mead Chicken --Marinade it in the mead for a couple of days....mmmmmmm

[Drachelis]

Found this site - looks like there are some very interesting recipes - Hey martin there is even one called capsicumel - made with honey and chilli http://www.solorb.com/mead/


We have made brews before with both spices and fruits - also did a batch with rose petals


Cheryl
Shadowlight Designs

[WorkMonkey]

I may have crack when I either get some moniac or make more robust HB.

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[Fillionous]

My experiance of mead is that it definitly matures in flavour over time. Non of our home made has been even worth looking at let alone drinking if it is under a year / year and a half old.

As for cooking I have marinaded pork and chicken in mead with great sucsess.
I have also got a pear in pastry recipe which uses mead to part cook the pears in before putting them in the cases... a very fine desert.

Be bright, be bold
Fillionous