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
Directions
Prepare the almonds
Blanch the almond meats.
Chop or grind the almonds coarsely.
Steep, strain and store
Pour hot water over the almonds and let stand for several hours or overnight.
Press the mixture through cheesecloth.
Store the almond milk in the refrigerator.
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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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.
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Almond + meattop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together486 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
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What each ingredient does
- Almond meats
- Supply the fat and solids that give the milk its body and creamy texture.
- Hot water
- Extracts flavor and soluble solids from the ground almonds into the liquid.
The step that matters
Pour hot water over the almonds and let stand for several hours or overnight.. The long soak gives the hot water time to draw flavor and solids out of the coarsely chopped almonds. A short soak leaves the milk thin and weak in flavor.
“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.
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