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The Magic Of Marsala Wine For Cooking and Drinking

What Is Marsala Wine And What Is It Used For? Marsala wine is a fortified  wine, used for drinking, and cooking chicken marsala and tiramisu. To make zabaglione, you add egg yolks and sugar to Marsala wine, or perhaps I should say, add |Marsala wine to egg yolks and sugar. Sicilian Marsala Fortified Wine Marsala Wine comes from the west coast of the island of Sicily, to the south of Italy. It is used in cooking to flavour the coating or sauce of Marsala chicken. Remember to type in the letter r in the middle, which I kept omitting as I typed this, and had to correct my typing.  Indian Masala Dosai The reason why your brain keeps omitting the r might be because you have often seen the similar word Masala, with the r, on Indian menus. I am very fond of masala dosai, a crisp bread rolled up and filled with spicy potato. Masala means mixed spice. The Wine Education Place and People WSET is the initials of Wine and Spirit Education Trust, which runs courses levels one, two, three a...