I had to share this with you, Beautiful People, because I cook with wine and bake with rum, but wonderful Tamara gives you a professional explanation of the reason for it. Enjoy your food – cheers!
“Pour a little vodka into your pie dough to make your crust extra flaky. Vodka is 60% water, 40% ethanol, so you can add more liquid to help you work with the dough since water toughens the dough. Most of the alcohol gets cooked off, so your pie won’t taste like vodka, but it will be so flaky and so tender you’ll cry (maybe die). If you’re feeling adventurous, try using other alcohols for specific kinds of pie, like brandy for pumpkin pie.”
~ From: http://www.buzzfeed.com
koolkosherkitchen 
Wow. That’s a great tip ! Is it good only for doughs, though ?
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Thank you for your lovely comment!
If you look through my recipes, most of them are “cooked with wine and baked with rum,” so it’s good for anything cooked because, as Tamara explains, alcohol cooks out but flavor is greatly enhanced and moisture is preserved.
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Thanks ! The only cake that I bake with rum is fruit cake ( then I preserve it in the fridge and brush it with more rum at least 2x a week….. I guess that’s the reason )
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Sounds very Cheer-ful! 😸
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Very interesting! Thank you!
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Thank you for your comment!
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Wow, so interesting! 🙂 Definitely worth trying it! 🙂
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Thank you for your comment – cheers! 😸
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Cheers! 😍💞 Happy cooking!
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Same to you, darling! 😻🍷🍹
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GREAT tip! I can’t wait to try this with GF substitutes – many tend to be a bit on the “tough or chewy” side to begin with. I’ll bet Frangelico would be absolutely marvelous in brownies and crusts for chocolate pies!
xx,
mgh
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I can’t guarantee crusts, as liqueurs are very sweet and that might weight the crust down, but in Black Sambucca made brownies so creamy – out of this world! – that Frangelico will definitely work.
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Thanks for the feedback. I’m not really big on most pies anyway – even less so now that I must avoid gluten. But a yummie brownie recipe is RIGHT up my alley!
xx,
mgh
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You and my husband will get along great! BTW, while he buys Black Sambucca for me, I get Frangelico for him – coincidence?
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There are no accidents, or so they say.
btw- just made some GF brownies – in the kitchen cooling. I will top them with coffee/rum buttercream, since the GF recipe I used called for an egg as the only liquid in the brownies themselves (and rum was all I had on hand, since I rarely drink at home and don’t drink rum, except for a splash in my evening coffee once in a while) I used brown sugar in the brownies.
ALL your fault if I eat the whole 8 x 8 pan by tomorrow and blow up like a blimp, you know. 🙂
xx,
mgh
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Enjoy yourself and don’t worry about calories and things! Life is there to be enjoyed, and for that purpose G-d gave us chocolate!
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Okay then – I’ll go get some vanilla ice cream tomorrow and see if I can do something about those dry brownies. 🙂
xx,
mgh
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If nothing else works, refer to my https://koolkosherkitchen.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/let-them-eat-potatoes/ or https://koolkosherkitchen.wordpress.com/2016/12/21/cake-pops-cake-in-10-minutes/.
Both require some alcohol which makes them moist and brings out the rich chocolate flavor.
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Thank you, Dolly. I’ll click right over.
xx,
mgh
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So clever!
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Thank you! 😻
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What a great tip! Thank you!
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Thank you – cheers! 😻
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That IS a good tip!
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It is – cheers!
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I too shall take this tip. Thanks!
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You’re most welcome – cheers!
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That’s so interesting, I had no idea 👍☺
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Yes, I’ve always used alcohol in cooking and baking but also didn’t know how it worked.
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Great tip!
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Thanks for the tip!
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My pleasure – cheers!
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Awesome tip! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for the tip! It is – cheers!
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Cheers! 😻
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Yep, great tip and sounds logical
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Sure does! Thank you for your comment – cheers!
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