497768 Mon Mar 10 15:10:06 -0700 2008 8 31 Home Cooking 0 3479232 Making soup and noticed it smelled pretty wine-y so doubled checked my recipe and I added a cup instead of 1/4 cup of white wine. Does wine have an antithesis that I can add? Like adding vinegar to overly sweet things, etc. I actually do this a lot, my tomato sauces are notoriously wine laden, so I'm asking as a rule of thumb, not just for this batch of soup. Mon Mar 10 15:10:06 -0700 2008 95577 yamalam 1 3479249 Cream? That's what comes to mind. Mon Mar 10 15:13:05 -0700 2008 3479232 18264 steinpilz 1 3479273 Hard to have a rule of thumb when the types of other ingredients involved have to be accounted for... What kind of soup and what total volume are you talking about? Mon Mar 10 15:19:05 -0700 2008 3479232 153308 souvenir 2 3479310 Making lentil soup with 1 cup lentils, 6 cups chicken broth, 14 oz tomatoes, 1/4 cup wine, onions, celery, carrots, garlic, bacon. I found some parmesean rinds in the fridge, so I threw those in. Mon Mar 10 15:31:32 -0700 2008 3479273 95577 yamalam 3 3479420 Were the instructions to add wine after the onions, celery, garlic were sauteed? I can see that one outcome of the increase in wine volume would be that it would take much longer for the wine to cook down and that a longer cooking period would be needed before adding in the broth. I think the outcome would taste quite a bit different if the wine and broth were added at the same time. Given your other ingredients, if it is tasting too acidic, I'd consider adding more carrots (more sweet) and/or some potatoes (not quite a creamy element but in that direction). If the soup is already pretty far along, I'd probably boil the potatoes separately and when almost cooked, add them in. This is what immediately comes to mind. Let us know what you end up doing. Mon Mar 10 16:04:47 -0700 2008 3479310 153308 souvenir 4 3479599 Thanks. Ended up adding potatoes, which added some heft and improved the soup anyway. Mon Mar 10 17:01:39 -0700 2008 3479420 95577 yamalam 5 3479621 That sounds like a good and tasty solution! Mon Mar 10 17:08:35 -0700 2008 3479599 153308 souvenir 1 3479629 The first thing that popped into my head was - Why is this a problem? LOL Mon Mar 10 17:12:02 -0700 2008 3479232 69079 starlady 2 3482236 My husband has defective taste glands and isn't crazy about an overt wine flavor. Poor me, he doesn't like overly garlicky things, or fish sauce either. Tue Mar 11 11:30:07 -0700 2008 3479629 95577 yamalam