[Sca-cooks] almond milk

[Stefan li Rous]

Phlip answered Angharad with:
> > what is meant by"  Blanch almonds and grind him, and draw him up with
> >> water. ???
>
> Those are one variant of the basic instructions for almond milk, which 
> was
> used quite often in the Christian Middle Ages as a substitute for 
> other milk
> on fast days. It's also pretty good in its own right, so I doubt the
> feasters were suffering ;-)
If you are interested in some more details on making almond milk, you 
might want to glance through this file in the FOOD section of the 
Florilegium files:
almond-milk-msg   (76K) 10/26/02    Making almond milk. Recipes. 
Deskinning nuts
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/almond-milk-msg.html

There is also this variation on almond milk. This is in the FOOD-SWEETS 
section:
almond-cream-msg  (24K) 10/12/03    A sweet custard filling used in 
sotelties.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-SWEETS/almond-cream-msg.html

Stefan
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