To fed DD (2) stew with lots of red wine in it?

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I have made a lovely beef stew, contains a decent amount of red wine. It cooked for 4 hours in the oven. AIBU to let 2 year old DD have some or will it send her 3 sheets to the wind?

The alcohol will be all gone. It is the flavour of the other stuff in wine/stout/cider that gives stews etc a boost.

I don't see any harm in it.

There are a lot of myths about how quickly it boils off, but yes 4 hours should be fine - a chicken and white wine thing that's only been cooked for 75 minutes is much more questionable.

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Thanks for all the replies. I will just give her a little sauce and add creme fraiche to hers to make more sauce IYKWIM. Next time I will use less wine and more stock. To be fair it is the first time I have cooked anything with wine in it since she was born, so I am not getting her hooked on it!

I gave DD beef stew cooked in half a bottle of red in the slow cooker this week

she loved it,

she has had wine in food for a a few months now, she is 12m old (and eats what we eat, except no salt in hers)

There will be hardly any alcohol left, definitely less than 5% of the original amount and that's only after 2.5 hours of cooking

homecooking.about.com/library/archive/blalcohol12.htm

I have given DS plenty of stews with alcohol in without a second thought.

DS, 18months has had a lot of alcohol based food. I'm pretty sure it's fine....

As a non-drinker, I hate stews that have had alcohol in them. I can taste it (they don't get me drunk but I can always taste the stuff - bleugh). If I am polite and people say "See, you ate it and didn't notice" I always want to say "See, I'm polite but the food was foul!"
Just out of interest, the casserole will have had a lid on, right? So where does the alcohol go, exactly? It can't just vanish into thin air. I honestly don't get it...

I'm sure it would have evaporated in 4 hours.

If not, I'm sure she'll sleep we'll tonight ;)

YANBU - it has certainly evaporated in that time, leaving just a trace. I gave all mine stews and such with alcohol at this age, it's only fair - they taste much nicer! .

The alcohol burns off. An HV who got arsy about something like that needs reporting - it is basic science and if they are able to advise in relation to diseases relating to children they should know a great deal better.

well i always have and i started when ds was younger than 2 as he was blw!

I thought that the alcohol burning/evaporating off theory was a load of rubbish? I read somewhere that only a small amount is lost.

Has anyone ever got tipsy on stew???
No!
We got my non drinking DFather tipsy in Christmas cake, but that was made with fruit soaked 75% rum for a week.

Meh, evaporated or not I'd give it to my DS. C'mon join the bad parents club it's so liberating

Ignore the PFB parents its stew! U aren't asking if its unreasonable to give your DCs a little glass of wine with their meal! It's stew! Evaporated or not, DD is 2, she isn't going to eat much more than a couple of spoons anyway surely!

If you've cooked the stew in the oven, with a lid on in order to retain the moisture, where does the alcohol evaporate to?

Personally I'd give it to her, but maybe dish hers up with less juice and add a splash of double cream instead.

Can I have your recipe

Just about to make a beef stew with half a bottle of wine in it... ready for tomorrow's lunch - for me and DD (4)

Can't wait and won't be worried. 4 hours in the oven - no alcohol left.

Honestly, the amount of alcohol is negligible. I hate the taste of alcohol but love the taste of wine/cider etc in food.

The point of adding wine to a stew or gravy is the taste of the wine or cider not the taste of alcohol.

I might be a teeny bit concerned about the richness of the stew, not the alcohol content.

There is an alternative solution for future if it worries you, buy cooking wine. Annoyingly I've only seen it in Morrisons but I used to work for a wholesaler and that's when I first came across it.

Basically it has most of the alcohol removed and a small amount of seasoning [to make sure it's exempt from duty and alcohol laws] and it keeps for 6 weeks once opened so can just sit in the cupboard, I think it's fab. It's usually by the vinegars/oils etc...

I have always given mine stews etc with wine in. We have a few recipies we use with wine/cider etc and its never occured to me not to give it to the children. We did blw so they have always just eaten what we eat. hell i put wine in bolognase sometimes!

Well she had and liked it. She didn't eat much of the sauce, but plenty of the beef. But she is now slurring her words and picking fights.

If you do Narked's suggestion of evaporating off some of the alcohol before use, don't lean over and sniff. Pure alcohol vapour hits the bloodstream quite quickly, and when you are doing the prep first thing in the morning for a slow cooker meal it may have a surprising effect. I may have done this.