[nilram]

"Does the booze really cook off?"

No, not all of it. Even a long-cooking stew can have 5% of the alcohol that was added at the start.

https://www.isu.edu/news/2019-fall/no-worries-the-alcohol-bu...

And, somehow, the smell of my mom's fresh-baked bread ties in with my adult sense of the odor of alcohol to say--yeah, there was some alcohol there, even if a small amount.