What have I done?! Come and save my Bolognese!

[youmaycallmeSSP]

I'm making tagliatelle spaghetti Bolognese. I used a mix of 400ml red grape juice and 100ml red wine vinegar as a substitute for red wine. It's been simmering for an hour and the smell is foul and the taste is, erm, vinegary. I've been chucking sugar into it but it doesn't seem to be making much difference. Can it be saved? I was thinking of reducing it right down and then boiling off milk through it before adding more tomato purée but I don't want to keep adding things if it's completely hopeless. What do I do?!

This is why I love mn . Thanks op. Have some on me.

Rub in the lack on red wine still further?

Ah yes, the whole OXO sub works a lot better if you were wanting the red wine for cooking not for drinking

So now it's a beefy fizzy cake? Have you tried adding marzipan?

Chuck it this way op

I reckon I could melt this bloody snow within a 100 mile radius with the fumes.

I'll swap you for a packet of jaffa cakes and a tin of corned beef.

Corned beef is actually quite expensive these days so that's not a bad deal.

This thread has made me laugh. In fact I think this is the most I have ever laughed at a mumsnet thread.

Sorry about the spag bol though OP.

Incidentally, my DH used to think that 'spag bol' referred to any spaghetti served in a bowl. True story.

Wash it again, but this time with a tbsp of vanish oxi action (pink not white tub) and then start again.

This is the best thread ever - I am lying in bed crying with laughter.
OP YOU NEED TO GET UP
I need to know how it is this morning!

Was it any better for breakfast?

Would putting a raw potato in help? Like how it absorbs excess salt or chilli? Don't eat the potato though!

Morning all.

DH tried some this morning and his reaction is unprintable, even on MN. I actually think it tastes ok - when it was in my mouth is tasted awful but it left a nice after-taste, not at all vinegary. The dreadful smell has pervaded the entire house though! Anyway, the sauce is in the bin and DH has drunk the rest of the grape juice so I can't do it again.

Thank you for the company, the suggestions (serious and mischievous) and the information :)

This thread has so cheered me up this morning! I was keeping it together until "got any pineapple" then I just ROARED.

Sorry about your spag bog, OP. you deserve a cooking medal form going to heroic lengths!

Wtf? Next time stuck to ragu and tomato puree you loon

Classic, total classic.

Sorry you couldn't rescue it, OP.

Perhaps next time just skip the wine...

'when it was in my mouth it tasted awful'

LOVE how you are seeing a silver lining in the 'nice aftertaste' even after this.

Good luck with the next spag bol :)

I've images of your dh eating all the ingredients one by one, raw, that you used in a panic just so you can't make it again

grape juice down his t-shirt as he empties a tube of tomato purée into his mouth....

YY, it's a Classic surely?

I braved the icy roads this morning to replace the ingredients. £39!?! at the checkout. There is a very good reason why I switched to online shopping.

£39? for ingredients! good grief where are you shopping?

I have loved your thread but I wouldn't recommend mixing baking powder and vinegar again as I think they are the basic ingredients of as bomb.....

No they are not the basic ingredients for a bomb! They are how you make a model volcano, though!

Lol@ 'spag bog'

Bombegnese?

I am really struggling with the knowledge of the OP spending 39 quid on tons of high quality ingredients then dousing them in grape juice, vinegar, milk, and baking soda. and deep heat and vanish oxi action.