Cooking with Alcohol

Learn why alcohol deserves a firm place in your kitchen as well as your glass, and explore the ways that alcohol can impact a recipe beyond the taste. Fermented or distilled for flavour, these transformative ingredients will elevate your cooking. In this groundbreaking book, Aaron and Susannah Rickard delve into the interaction between the most universally enjoyed substance and the food that we cook. In more than 100 recipes with alcohol as the key ingredient, they guide home cooks on how to bring unexpected depth and unrivalled complexity to their dishes, and explore the science of using alcohol in the kitchen. Alcoholic beverages are ingredients with unique chemical structures that do more than liberate flavour, and this book takes readers far beyond typical alcohol-based stews and sauces to discover a world of alcohol-infused sweet and savoury baking, weeknight pasta dishes, heart-warming comfort foods, soups, luxurious desserts and much more. Developed in the home kitchen and meticulously tested at home for friends and family, Aaron and Susannah Rickard bring together recipes for beloved and iconic dishes with alcohol in an accessible book produced specifically to share their knowledge with the adventurous home cook.