Name: Almond Milk
Ingredients: 1 cup almond meats; 1 quart hot water; optional: a few bitter almonds

Why it works: Almond and meat work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 486 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Almond Milk

Ingredients

1 cup almond meats
1 quart hot water
optional: a few bitter almonds

Directions

Prepare the almonds

Blanch the almond meats.
Chop or grind the almonds coarsely.

Make the milk

Pour hot water over the almonds and let stand for several hours or overnight.
Press the mixture through cheesecloth.
Store the almond milk on ice.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Almond + meattop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together486 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Almonds: Provide the fat, protein and flavour that make up the milk's body and taste.
Hot water: Extracts flavour and solids from the chopped almonds into the liquid while softening them.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.