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  • Put all the fruit in a saucepan on a gentle heat and add a couple of tablespoons of caster sugar and a slug of something pleasantly alcoholic such as brandy, whisky or even sherry.
  • The best sherry glasses are the thin, transparent ‘copitas’ which are designed especially for the job.
  • Obviously the decisions of Janet, Sherry, and Marjorie touched a fragile and painful nerve. THE STAPLE STREET GANG: MANDY AND THE PURPLE SPOTTED HANKY
  • Oloroso is an aromatic, nutty sherry made in both dry and slightly sweet styles.
  • The meetings were not entirely musical, or so one gathers from the early minute-books, where it is stated that at each meeting one bottle of sherry was to be provided for every three members, and one bottle of madeira for every seven members, and further that politics or religion were not to be talked during meetings. Music and Musicians
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  • A fire was burning in the grate to warm the salon, and ratafia biscuits and a flask of sherry were arrayed on a side table. The Dressmaker
  • McSherry scored an inspirational point from a tight angle when he was forced to shoot from the right corner.
  • The fruit, called sloe, can be made into a liqueur called sloe gin, of the "fizz" fame, but Ulrike discovered a distillery that makes it into a kind of sherry made of sloes. Archive 2006-10-01
  • In the Baltimore markets four kinds of terrapin are sold -- not counting muskrat, which is sometimes disguised with sauce and sherry and served as a substitute. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
  • A day in advance, put the citrus zests, juice, sherry and brandy in a bowl to soak.
  • Some Eisweins sweeter than Sherry, but this is still as close to liquid raisins as it gets.
  • Champagne and chilled fino sherry both perform this role with aplomb but sometimes it pays to go for something a little off-piste.
  • Engle makes Sherry adorably effective as an effable, devoted (brings his lunch to work) wife who deals reasonably well with that pesky little transgression and is funny as hell when she learns while drunk that Joe's old flame is married to the renegade preacher. James Scarborough: Bail Me Out, the Hudson Guild Theatre
  • The drink was the same fiery distillation that was known as claret, sherry, brandy, rum, whisky, or whatever else a role might call for. Hokas Pokas
  • Add bean sprouts and cook another half minute. Add pork, shrimp, salt, soy, sherry and heat through.
  • Sherry's been making a strenuous effort to lose weight.
  • Whisky is always kept in oak casks that have already stored another alcoholic beverage: usually bourbon or sherry, occasionally port and Madeira.
  • Madrid maintains that the term sherry can only be applied to wine made in the region of Jerez in southern Spain. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The characters are relaxing, enjoying mead, grog, and various other old-timesy type drinks that no one actually drinks anymore like sarsaparilla, sherry, or wine coolers.
  • Rather than staying cozily in Mr.. Baird's parlor to be entertained by stereopticon views of Perth Harbor, though, Frank chose to keep his appointment for sherry with Mr. Bainbridge, a solicitor with an interest in local historical records. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • Sherry planned on having an entertainment company of her own.
  • Guests have been asked for eight sherry glasses, eight champagne flutes, eight whisky tumblers, eight brandy goblets and two decanters.
  • He likes to pair foods flavored with rosemary with a fino sherry, a dry fortified wine.
  • The obvious festive choice is fortified wine, of which sherry and port are the most popular. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘Bring back the birch,’ slurred Mrs Mungo into her umpteenth pre-prandial sherry.
  • Something like a Macallan 18 year old can actually contain several much older barrels in the mix (called "vatting"), aged in rare sherry casks. A bright orange bag on the carousel
  • His larder is well supplied with poultry and wild fowl, his cellar contains "lashings," not only of "Parliament and pot," or "John Jamieson" and illicit "potheen," but of port and sherry, claret and champagne. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
  • I said, for shame, these men will see our slovenliness, these sticky sherry glasses everywhere, these newspapers scattered on the carpets since the maidservants were no more.
  • It wasn't so long ago that a request for a third glass of fino sherry would raise a few eyebrows and mutterings about a drink problem.
  • When all this was melted, he added a small glass of sherry in which he had mixed a teaspoon of cornstarch.
  • The warmth of the restaurant and a few glasses of sherry really hit the spot, and having unthawed, we indulged in mouth-watering Southern cooking eating scrumptious shrimp and grits.
  • When a ham is roasting in the oven with a bit of sherry poured over it, or a trifle, for goodness' sake, has a bit of sherry in it, is sherry not a cooking condiment?
  • Sherry stared deep into his eyes like she was listening and like she cared.
  • This bill covers dessert wine, sherry, vermouth, port - the drinks of the matriarchs, shall we say.
  • Perhaps in her doddering senility, she was subconsciously confusing it with all the dry sherry she was knocking back.
  • Add the sherry and white wine. Times, Sunday Times
  • Someone else requested top tips for cooking Christmas dinner after one sherry too many.
  • Every other department that issued invitations offered sherry and nibbles to graduands and parents.
  • We have both sweet and dry sherry.
  • Thinly slice half the strawberries, mash or sieve the remainder and mix with the cream, lemon juice, sherry or wine and sugar.
  • Then he went to the table, took the rest of his sherry, corked the bottle, and left.
  • The class burst with laughter at her response while Sherry and Mandy cackled on evilly, thinking that Livinia was in for it.
  • Several times a day she would clatter downstairs to the kitchen with a Thermos that she would fill with her favourite hooch - a mixture of hot tea and sherry.
  • Instructions: Stir all ingredients over ice; strain into a chilled sherry copita glass. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • She hates sherry, tolerates wine, and occasionally sips at champagne to be sociable.
  • The fact is that when we had a big debate on port and sherry wine, those members were not here in the Chamber.
  • You may not know it, people, but Sherry's is the ree-churchiest place in Success A Novel
  • On each table there was a glass of sherry. Times, Sunday Times
  • Students choose from daily entrees like 10-grain cereal, organic tofu scrambles, frisee salad sandwiches with house-made honey-cured lardon, poached eggs and sherry vinaigrette served with toasted brie on a baguette and ginger soy miso soup with arugula. Her Campus: The 10 Healthiest College Dining Halls in America
  • If you want to add sherry or port, do this now. The Sun
  • Sherry's been making a strenuous effort to lose weight.
  • Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images Sherry Harmon and Mojor, a komondor, waited to go in the ring. Working Like a Dog at Westminster
  • Blend the sugar, soy sauce, sherry and cornflour together.
  • The latter is matured in American bourbon casks, but then finished - transferred - into sweet oloroso sherry casks for up to a year.
  • Do you like sweet or dry sherry?
  • A general rule of thumb is that whisky which has been laid down and matured in former fresh oak sherry casks tends to be - after the correct period - a darker colour than that which is matured in refilled white oak casks.
  • beeswing" sherry, he was aware of all Alan Hawke's intentions. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story
  • Adults will be served with sherry and mince pies. Times, Sunday Times
  • Both are aged in oak prior to bottling and have the very distinctive Jura style which has close associations with the style of dry sherry. Thorsons Organic Wine Guide
  • Mix the crushed garlic, chopped chilli, paprika, sherry and olive oil, and spoon over the prawns.
  • From the guarded and secretive streets of the whitewashed barrios, with their flower-strewn interiors, to the shady bodegas where ice cold sherry is served from ancient wooden casks, everything about Seville says romance.
  • Clearly a dry wine such as a Fino Sherry or Sercial Madeira is most appropriate at the start of the meal, not the end.
  • Her day might begin with ironing (she kept a board in the office, under which she stashed the sherry and damp laundry) or paste-ups.
  • I just managed to remember my afternoon committee meeting and amend the order to a second sherry. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • When the garlic turns golden, add the paprika and then the sherry vinegar. Times, Sunday Times
  • Besides, a goat might butt Peregrine - tumble him, with his chaste nankeens, his sherry-colour body-coat, and his certainties into the scuppers.
  • I poured in a large glug of sherry and cooked further until the alcohol had evaporated.
  • A separate sauce is made by sauteing the duck liver with shallots, carrots, herbs, and dry sherry.
  • Put the fish stock and dry sherry into another pan and reduce by two-thirds. A Passion for Food
  • If Nanny was pouring sherry then she was probably by the sideboard, using not the sherry decanter, which is always empty, but a bottle taken out of the cupboard beneath it. Michael Frayn: The day my life changed
  • Lavinia rose and walked toward an octagonal cellaret; opening the lid, she took out a decanter of sherry and two glasses. Soul
  • Usually we'd have a half of beer, but on this occasion someone suggested a glass of sherry, because it dried you out.
  • France's answer to Spain's top-quality dry sherry, these two wines share similarities in the way they are produced, aging under a blanket of yeast, called "voile" in the case of Vin Jaune and "flor" with Sherry. Undefined
  • The restaurant next to the gallery is El Fortin, and the food is fabulous .... the sopa de cuitlacoche, with sherry, is divine. San Sebastian del Oeste et al
  • But from the 17th century much of Huelva's production was sold to Jerez, where it was blended anonymously into sherry soleras.
  • Kiwis have gone from drinking cask wine and sherry to learning to appreciate quality vintages, and that's a development he'll drink to any day.
  • Sherry, brandy, and Marsala add flavour and an alcoholic kick to creamy puddings such as trifle, tiramisu, zabaglione, and egg nog.
  • But ye wadna wait to hear out my tale, Monkbarns -- she gaed out, and she came in again with the gardener sae sune as she saw that nane o 'ye were clodded ower the Craig, and that Miss Wardour was safe in the chariot; she was hame a quarter of an hour syne, for it's now ganging ten -- sair droukit was she, puir thing, sae I e'en put a glass o' sherry in her water-gruel. The Antiquary — Volume 01
  • Fewer scales are needed to produce a consistent amontillado or oloroso sherry than a fino or manzanilla sherry because these fuller, richer wines vary less from year to year.
  • Pound three quarters of a pound of chicken, veal or rabbit until quite smooth, then pound one half pound of panada (bread soaked in hot milk), and mix the two together, add two tablespoonfuls of thick soubise sauce, an ounce and a quarter butter, two tablespoons sherry, a little pepper and salt and three whole eggs. My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec
  • If they would have a leg-of-mutton and an apple-pudding, and a glass of sherry and port (or simple brandy-and-water called by its own name) after dinner, all would be very well; but they must shine, they must dine as their neighbors. The Fitz-Boodle Papers
  • Baxter accepted a teaspoonful of sherry to wash down another antacid tablet and Short declined. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
  • If you drive having had one spoonful too many of sherry trifle, they take away your licence. The Sun
  • He poured her a fresh glass of sherry.
  • There is also a faint undertone of tobacco and a slight hint of dry sherry.
  • Add the sherry and sugar, and sweat for a further five minutes, until it goes thick and sticky.
  • A plump, red-faced man is demanding a third helping of sherry trifle. The Sun
  • Sherry maintained its lead as the most popular drink, but there was an appreciable increase in the consumption of French and Empire wines.
  • They took a glass of precious sherry in the music room, and Six entertained them with a wobbling nocturne. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
  • Sherry wine, fortified or not, is currently amazing value for money.
  • Usually we'd have a half of beer, but on this occasion someone suggested a glass of sherry, because it dried you out.
  • George was heard vociferating, 3 “What the deevil, Mrs. Grimslees, the Captain is no in his bed? and a gentleman at our house has ordered a fowl and minced collops, and a bottle of sherry, and has sent to ask him to supper, to tell him all about the Abbey.” The Monastery
  • Place the moistened bread, six cloves of garlic, 3½ cups of fried and salted Marcona almonds, 3 tablespoons high-quality sherry vinegar, 5 cups yellow or green seedless grapes and 1½ cups extra virgin olive oil into the bowl of a food processor. Chilled Summer Soups
  • Order large glass of dry sherry and feel its warmth penetrate toes, making up for rather painful new shoes.
  • Make the dressing by mixing the oil, sherry vinegar, mustard, salt and pepper and the crushed garlic.
  • Add wine or sherry, stirring into the rice. Times, Sunday Times
  • Do you like sweet or dry sherry?
  • Aromatic floral whiffs of soft ripe apricot can't hide drier fruit flavours that have an almost fino sherry slant with a mild green olive and salty tang on the finish.
  • Christmas is the one time of year when I can imagine some tiny excuse for people buying the miserable tripe they do: their brainstems have been replaced by mincemeat and their cranial fluid by sherry.
  • I went to the bar and asked for a dry sherry and sat in a discreet corner behind a decorative shrub.
  • Combine stock, soy sauce and rice wine or sherry and set aside. The Sun
  • I just managed to remember my afternoon committee meeting and amend the order to a second sherry. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • In the US, Glenmorangie has released versions finished in fino sherry barrels.
  • The obvious festive choice is fortified wine, of which sherry and port are the most popular. Times, Sunday Times
  • Miss Wardour was safe in the chariot; she was hame a quarter of an hour syne, for it's now ganging ten --- sair droukit was she, puir thing, sae I e'en put a glass o 'sherry in her water-gruel.' ' The Antiquary
  • Sherry persuades Maureen Kingsley to hold off on the Keith story by offering up another story for her -- that a government agent was involved in a conspiracy to kill Palmer.
  • On board ship he invariably tried to hoodwink other people, even a cabin boy, into paying for his sherry.
  • The process is similar to the solera process used to make fine sherry in Spain. Meathead Goldwyn: Balsamic Vinegar: Magnificence and Deception
  • Add bean sprouts and cook another half minute. Add pork, shrimp, salt, soy, sherry and heat through.
  • Mille feuille of foie gras, boudin noir, braised turnips and apple with a sherry vinegar sauce.
  • Emily said she had eaten a meal of meat and two veg every day and she also enjoyed ‘a drop of sherry, but not much’.
  • Since it became a region in its own right, Montilla has had to contend with a popular image as an inferior, cheap alternative to sherry.
  • Adults will be served with sherry and mince pies. Times, Sunday Times
  • I really think people should also consider say Fino Sherry and, of course, Tokay.
  • Sherry, encouraged colleagues in Liverpool, London, Manchester and Preston to establish local associations.
  • Choices include rump steak, herby roasting potatoes and raspberry and sherry trifle. The Sun
  • Ice cream for the children, shared apple and blackberry crumble for my wife and me, while my parents shared a sherry and raspberry trifle.
  • Let's have a drink to christen our new sherry glasses.
  • What about dumping the crazy-young-doing-crazy-stuff style adverts that dominate on TV today and turning instead to the creation of simple plugs for brands of dry sherry and short breaks to Madeira?
  • 'Sherry's but shilpit drink, and a gill's a sma' measure for twa gentlemen to crack ower at their first acquaintance. Redgauntlet
  • Add the sherry or rice wine and allow to almost boil away until sticky. Times, Sunday Times
  • After they've stowed away about eleventeen courses, from grapefruit and sherry to demitasse and benedictine, them that can leave the table without wheel chairs wanders out into the front rooms, and the men light up fresh perfectos and hunt for the smokin 'den, and the women get together in bunches and exchange polite knocks. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe
  • In Spain, this tradition began in the southeastern region where sherry is made when innkeepers would put little plates on top of the sherry glasses (copitas) to keep out the flies and dust.
  • The Denver Post's Allison Sherry dialed into a call with Rep. CoryGardner Dec. 14, andasked areally good follow-up question raising doubts about Gardner'ssubsequent explanation that he opposed a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut because twomonths was too short. Jason Salzman: Congressman Was for Tax Cut Before He Was Against It
  • The cured ham and sherry give a wonderfully rounded Spanish flavour to the clams and the broth.
  • Drink up your sherry and we'll go.
  • I'd be forced to sing Molly Malone or something, my sister and I would have to get up and do a bit of Irish dancing and all the biddies would nod happily and sip their sherry.
  • Students choose from daily entrees like 10-grain cereal, organic tofu scrambles, frisee salad sandwiches with house-made honey-cured lardon, poached eggs and sherry vinaigrette served with toasted brie on a baguette and ginger soy miso soup with arugula. Her Campus: The 10 Healthiest College Dining Halls in America
  • Dave pours another plastic cup of sherry and helps himself to his 173rd Cadburys bar while ignoring colleagues' pleas of ‘Those were bought for the whole office, you know!’
  • First comes the sherry casks, then there's the traditional bourbon casks from America, and finally it is moved to new oak casks, coopered from American timber.
  • My awesome critique partner Take No Prisoners Sherry highlights the problem words in red and the over-used words in blue with other colors for words indicating a slue of other things. Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Improving those opening pages, part II: preparing your manuscript for its first target reader
  • At the start, Amis announces certain 'general principles' to be followed in creating drinks, all of which can be derived, by natural drinkers 'logic, from the first of them, which holds that' up to a point [i.e. short of offering your guests one of those Balkan plonks marketed as wine, Cyprus sherry, poteen and the like], go for quantity rather than quality '. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
  • When the garlic turns golden, add the paprika and then the sherry vinegar. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sherry, the punky bleached blond in the box office, looked up at me.
  • Here a good Chinese chilli sauce such as Lee Kum Kee will add necessary warmth, while the marinade of cornflour, sesame oil and rice wine or dry sherry tenderises the meat and supplies a thickening agent for the sauce.
  • Sherry kept her hands at her mouth, her expression unchanged. Scott Free
  • The secret of sherry - one of the things that makes it unique in the world of wine - is the solera system by which it is made.
  • I just managed to remember my afternoon committee meeting and amend the order to a second sherry. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • Add the mussels, soy sauce, rice wine or sherry and the stock. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, Betty Sherry, the CDC obesity expert, told me that overweight was the terminology more accepted for childrenalthough thats being debatedto help avoid the stigma of the term obesity. Young Runners
  • Sherry, with a variety of styles from aperitif to digestif, deserves exploration.
  • Further obfuscation is caused by Sherry's eagerness to obtrude himself.
  • After aperitifs - sherry for Vicky and white port for me - we were brought what was described as ‘celery cappuccino’.
  • Now, 13 years after his information technology firm was born, McSherry's drive is paying off as Prosys Business Solutions cements its reputation a one of the country's most innovative companies.
  • Mama had Missy make her famous corn chowder, ginger beef, carrot pudding, fresh manchet bread, and sherry and vanilla cream custards.
  • In Italy, especially in Piedmont, it's used to make spumante, in Spain sherry, in Greece Metaxa brandy, in Peru their national brandy, Pisco, and in Chile and Australia it's blended with other whites. September 2004
  • The word manzanilla showed up in the Spanish language about 200 years ago, about the same time the solera system of making sherry began in Sanlúcar.
  • It's very nice with dry sherry in the mix too rather than just plain vodka. Times, Sunday Times
  • So, where are the queues for dry sherry? Times, Sunday Times
  • They are people in the last years of their life who like a port or sherry.
  • Depending on the style of the wine, sherry is fortified with grape spirit known as aguardiente to between 15.5 and 22 per cent.
  • Illustration by Brian Stauffer for The Wall Street Journal Some date the decline in Sherry's popularity to 1833, the year of the first oceangoing steamship. Sherry's Long, Rich Past and Uncertain Present
  • Sherry in which some Hops have been steeped makes a capital stomachic cordial. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • Add a generous slosh of sherry, let it bubble for a moment, and follow up with a more modest splash of wine or cider vinegar.
  • It's what we never wanted to happen - two guys in their affluent forties sitting around ironically being unironic, drinking sherry and eating biscuits, talking about the good old days of world-changing punk and fury.
  • Yes, that was me, a Jewish pisher from the New Jersey suburbs, in a leather armchair, sipping sherry and chatting with a WASP assistant dean about Plato in an oak-paneled lounge like no other room I'd ever been in. 'Underground'
  • With 35 years to go, we now have Sherry Turkle's "Alone Together" as a progress report from the biotechnological front lines. Sherry Turkle's meditation on technology, "Alone Together"
  • But even the omelet couldn't compare to the next tapa mushroom in a sherry and butter sauce.
  • Sherry-style wines are also made in California though they usually do not go through a solera system and most are sweet.
  • Harvey's is home to what is probably the best known Sherry in the world: Harvey's Bristol Cream, a sweet Sherry launched over 100 years ago and still regularly found on the sideboards of dining rooms and shelves of most bars. Sherry's Long, Rich Past and Uncertain Present
  • It did not work but the client liked sherry, so the compounder went out and bought the best sherry he could find, a sweet one, and did not charge the patient a penny for that! What To Wear For A Crisis
  • Please excuse Sherry from gym class today. She has had the flu.
  • She sits out front under a tattered awning all day in school holidays, watching people, drinking from a two litre flagon of sherry. Clovers in her hair
  • Cut into chunks and tip into a blender along with the lime juice and the sherry vinegar. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you have time, soak raisins or sultanas in the muscat or sherry first, then pour them on the ice cream along with the liquid.
  • Now that sherry is no longer shipped in cask, some Scotch whisky distillers in Scotland have their barrels ‘broken in’ in Jerez with sherry.
  • So with dinner in mind and a recent chat to people in Spain, I think a small sherry is in order.
  • Now I 'm going to get Sherry, or some of the fellows that do the redowa well, so you can have a real good go before the music stops. An Old-Fashioned Girl
  • She also likes a glass of sherry. The Sun
  • Davidson reasoned that his design, based on traditional the Spanish sherry copita, better focused and concentrated the scents and flavors. Spirits: I'll tumble 4 ya
  • Combine the soy sauce, garlic, ginger, hoisin, sugar, vinegar, and wine/sherry in a small bowl, cover it, and set it aside.
  • They were snipped into tiny pieces and cooked gently in olive oil with liver, garlic and sherry. Times, Sunday Times
  • A few aromatic examples clockwise from top left: alcohol, sherry-like acetaldehyde, vinegary acetic acid, buttery diacetyl, fruity ethyl acetate, nutty furan, solvent-like benzene, and toasty maltol. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
  • Grandmother likes to partake of a small glass of sherry before lunch.
  • Drink a toast at a wedding, eat a sherry trifle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sherry, brandy, and Marsala add flavour and an alcoholic kick to creamy puddings such as trifle, syllabub, cranachan, brose, tiramisu, zabaglione, and egg nog.
  • The third is the hygienic sciolist, who drinks on principle poor “Gladstone” and thin French wines, cheap and nasty; and the survivor is the man who enjoys a quantum suff. of humming Scotch and Burton ales, sherry, Madeira, and port, with a modicum of cognac. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • In a bowl, mix the sherry and cornflour to a smooth liquid. The Sun
  • I hope and pray that the friends and family who mean so much to Sherry have survived and are safe from harm.
  • Cook pieces of succulent chicken with ample garlic and a little sherry.
  • Over the next two hours we feast on goose-liver pate, Beluga caviar, smoked salmon, chicken and sherry consommé, lamb cutlets, goat's cheese and walnut souffle.
  • Other than that, the only wines of international quality were the fortified wines, particularly Sherry from the town of Jerez on the southern coast.
  • A pause ensued, before the table was replenished -- a sort of parenthesis in which Mr. Simpson, Mr. Calton, and Mr. Hicks, produced respectively a bottle of sauterne, bucellas, and sherry, and took wine with everybody -- except Tibbs. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
  • Port and sherry of British manufacture, and the water with an incredible borachio, essence of tar; so that tea and coffee are but derisive names. Letters from the Cape
  • A plate of sautéed button mushrooms aswim in a soupy blend of sherry and lemon juice also slipped in somehow.
  • Depending on the style of the wine, sherry is fortified with grape spirit known as aguardiente to between 15.5 and 22 per cent.
  • See, if I wanted to go out and return minus all my valuables, I could do that perfectly well on my own with the help of a few snifters of sherry.
  • This is a combination of rums aged from 15-25 years and blended using the solera process, which is done primarily for sherry but is sometimes employed for spirits as well. Tony Sachs: Yo-Ho-Ho And A Snifter Of Rum: Sipping Rums To Enjoy Without Paper Umbrellas
  • A most delicious relish is made with Roquefort cheese, the size of a walnut, rubbed in with equal quantity of butter, moistened with sherry (lemon juice will serve if sherry be not available), and seasoned with salt, pepper, celery salt, and paprika; then squeezed into the troughs of a dozen slender, succulent sticks of celery. Jack London's Recipes: An Insight Into Jack's Dietary Habits
  • If the pan is quite dry, add 3½ tbsp more sherry and stir it into the rest. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was a widow, fleshy, piggy-eyed, slack-mouthed, with a taste for sweet sherry.
  • Now, it's almost routine to find single malts matured in used casks which once held cognac, fino sherry, Madeira, Malaga, Bordeaux and other wines and spirits.
  • Look for a sherry called "Amontillado," which refers to the medium-dry character of the wine. Kurt Friese: Gazpacho: Liquid Salad
  • I prefer sherry to marsala when I can get it, and the latter was the wine of which I have no doubt I heard the 'cloop' just before dinner. The Book of Snobs
  • It has been hard to persuade Chardonnay and Cabernet drinkers that sherry is worth trying - but change is afoot.
  • Also giving commendable performances were calypsonian Eunice Peters, who performed the song House of Music, and petite soca diva Sherry Ann Church.
  • Add the bay, thyme, rosemary, garlic, orange zest, cinnamon and a splash of dry sherry.
  • If you have time, soak raisins or sultanas in the muscat or sherry first, then pour them on the ice cream along with the liquid.
  • I finished the dish with a drizzle of sherry vinegar and a touch of maple syrup, the vinegar cutting through the heaviness of the bacon and the syrup helping to tame the bitterness of the greens.
  • The bell chimed out, its sharp sound a contrast to the stillness as the Courtmacsherry Lifeboat rolled in the gentle swell.

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