Topic: Warning your soup may contain ALCOHOL?!!!!!
AliG
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I know that Bisque may contain sherry. I didn't realize that Onion Soup may, as well.
Applebee's Restaurant French Onion Soup Sliced onion and flavorful garlic caramelized and simmered in a hearty combination of roasted beef stock and {b}sweet sherry wine[/b]. Topped with a crouton and Swiss cheese.
I am on ceftriaxone and believe that the intoxicated feeling (equivilent to several drinks ) and dull headaches (similar to mild hangover) I experienced after dinner the other night may have been related to my consumption of the onion soup.
Avoid alcoholic drinks while you are using ceftriaxone and for two days afterwards.
Alcohol may give you a headache, make you dizzy, feel sick, sweat and increase your heartbeat.
Other medicines you get on prescription, or buy at the pharmacy may contain small amounts of alcohol.
They never mentioned onion soup.
(My episode was either caused by the soup or it was herx related. Based on the timing, I'm pretty sure it was the soup. )
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CaliforniaLyme
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WOW!!! Good heads-up!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!
There was a report on the amount of alcohol that stays in when something is cooked and I forget what the content was but I htink it was over 50%!!!
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CaliforniaLyme
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What Happens to the Alcohol?
Conventional wisdom holds that after a few minutes of cooking, the alcohol in wine evaporates. That's not exactly the case. Research from the USDA shows that 85 percent of the alcohol remains after wine is added to a boiling liquid and then removed from the heat. The longer a dish is cooked, however, the less alcohol remains. If a food is baked or simmered 15 minutes, 40 percent of the alcohol will remain; after one hour, only 25 percent remains; after 2 1/2 hours, just 5 percent.
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tdtid
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Wow...interesting heads up. It's funny how I've thought I was being so strict with my diet since my diagnosis and had things like this not even enter my mind. Thanks.
Cathy
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AliG
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I was prepared to blame it on a herx. I also thought that maybe I formed a clot from the IV & it hit my brain. (Sure - I can laugh now, but it really wasn't funny when it was happening)
I had been looking for recipes to make onion soup, the other day. Most recipes did not have sherry, but when I thought about this, I remembered having seen it. Of course I didn't use it when I made it, so it wasn't really in my mind.
I do believe the recipes call for adding it near the end of cooking. Maybe they had put it in when they ladle the soup into the bowl?
When they make Bisque, I believe they put brandy in while cooking and then "finish" the soup with sherry.
Charlie Brown's: Baked French Onion Soup 3.99 Made with fresh onions and rich beefy broth, topped with Gruyere cheese and baked until golden brown.
Friday's doesn't list ingredients.
I just checked allrecipes.com and find a lot of different soups may contain sherry, even cream of mushroom or cauliflower and some chowders. I'd be very careful, in the more gourmet restaurants, when ordering soup.
Deserts like Trifle and Tiramisu may contain alcohol, though we probably would not be eating them for the sugar content anyway.
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) and dull headaches (similar to mild hangover) I experienced after dinner the other night may have been related to my consumption of the onion soup. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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(Sure - I can laugh now, but it really wasn't funny when it was happening)
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