Brandy other beverages to make several popular cocktails; these include the Brandy Sour, the Brandy Alexander, the Sidecar, the Brandy Daisy, and the Brandy Old Fashioned. Brandy is a common deglazing liquid used in making pan sauces for steak and other meat. It is used to create a more intense flavour in some soups, notably onion soup. In English Christmas cooking, brandy is a common flavouring in traditional foods such as Christmas cake, brandy butter, and Christmas pudding. It is also commonly used in drinks such as mulled wine, drunk during the festive season. Brandy is used to flambé dishes such
What About Us? (Brandy song) back to life with the force and devastation of a tortoise being plucked from the airing cupboard and set on fire: this rocks hard, it’s the tippest of the top, it gets better with every single listen, and it might well be Rodney’s best work since ‘Say My Name’." Somewhat critical with the track, his colleague Piers Martin found that "What About Us?" was "a slippery, twitching slab of computer funk that thrusts Brandy, fleetingly, into the 21st century, while Devon Thomas "The Michigan Daily" called it "guaranteed mainstream club play". Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine ranked the song among his