SC - Upper class eats
Terry Nutter
gfrose at cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu
Mon May 26 11:29:34 PDT 1997
Hi, Katerine here. Cariadoc quotes me and responds:
>>There are at least six recipes for almond butter extant from the 14th and
>>15th centuries in England. However, there is no evidence that it was used
>>as a spread. It seems to have been served sliced as a dish.
>
>As I recall, almond butter is not, as one might think from the name, butter
>flavored with almonds, but rather a butter like product made (like almond
>milk) from almonds. Is that correct?
More or less right, except that I'm not all that sure I'd call it butter-like.
It's made of almond milk, thickened and coagulated to a more-or-less
butter-like consistency.
Cheers,
- -- Katerine/Terry
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