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Julia Altshuler
 
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Default Sweet Wine Substitute - Help Request !

In that case, you definitely want grape juice. I'd say Welch's red, but
the color is up for debate.
--Lia


Musky wrote:

> Well, this is a strange one, but I bought a book called "Roman Cookery" by
> Mark Grant from Amazon. Yup, u guessed it, ancient-roman meals. Many of
> them call for a 'Sweet Wine' to be used. In this case, it is for a meal
> called:
>
> "Hare In A Sweet Sauce"
>
> It states:
>
> "1/2 pint sweet white wine.....you need the sweetest dessert wine you can
> find to give the dish the sweet and sour flavour of which the Romans were so
> fond."