[Sca-cooks] Almond Milk
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius1 at verizon.net
Mon Jun 8 13:17:45 PDT 2009
On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Suey wrote:
> I do not remember who gave a recipe for almond milk with skins still
> attached. Lladonora directs that the almonds be peeled before
> crushing them in a mortar. See Josep Lladonora, La Cocina Medieval,
> p. 158. It has never occurred to me to leave the skins on.
> Suey
Most recipes seem to call for peeled, blanched almonds, since the
object will be something that looks like milk.
However, some recipes (usually calling for a brownish, russet or
reddish-colored sauce in the final product) call for unpeeled and/or
unblanched, and sometimes toasted, almonds for this purpose. Most
mirrauste recipes and le Menagier's tile of meat and crayfish come to
mind as examples of the latter.
Adamantius
"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls,
when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's
bellies."
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