cognac

WHAT IS COGNAC,  I have a recipe for a strawberry shortcake, and it calls for cognac in Strawberry Jello.   Help!  the cake is in the oven now.  and this will be my next step.  thank you

Joan.Clark6383@sbcglobal.net

Cognac is brandy, which is distilled wine.

Technically, to be called cognac, it must come from an area around the town of Cognac in France, and indeed they make some fine brandies there.  But other brandies can be good too, and might cost significantly less.

If you don'thave any brandy, substitue a little bit of rum or rum extract or any liqeur  you may have in the house; even a a small shot of wine may do or do without unless you are a gourmet chef and just have to have this dessert  for an important meal.

Myself, I could not see wasting a good Hennesy or Armagnac cognac in something like artificially flavored strawbwrry Jel-O . Just like I would not waste my dark Meyer's Rum in Jel-O unless II use real fruit juice and gel it with unflavored gelatine or another thickener and make my own jel-o from scratch.