SC - Almond Milk - a silly question

[david friedman]

At 2:59 AM -0600 3/4/00, Stefan li Rous wrote:
>Anahita the ever curious (uh, oh. Not another Stefan :-) ) asks:
>  > So, trying to find something else to drink at feasts, besides water
>  > and sekanjaben, i ask:
>  >
>  > Was almond milk drunk as a beverage in period?

 From Le Menagier:

ALMOND MILK. Parboil and peel your almonds, then put in cold water, 
then grind and soak in water in which onions have been cooked and 
strain through a sieve: then fry the onions, and add a little salt, 
and boil on the fire, then add the sops.  And if you make almond milk 
for sick people, do not add onions, and in place of the onion water 
to soak the almonds as spoken of above, add and soak them in clean 
warm water and boil it, and do not add salt, but lots of sugar. And 
if you want to make it as a drink, strain through a sieve or through 
two pieces of cloth, and lots of sugar to drink it.

Which makes it clear that it could be used as a drink, but not clear 
whether that was only for sick people or not.

David/Cariadoc
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