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Blanc-Manger Ordinaire

A drink made by boiling sweet and bitter almonds, removing skins, blending, and straining the mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Blanc-Manger Ordinaire

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the almonds

  1. Boil water in a pot.

  2. Add sweet and bitter almonds to the boiling water.

  3. Remove the skins from the almonds.

Make the milk

  1. Blend the almonds until smooth.

  2. Strain the mixture to remove any solids.

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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What each ingredient does

Sweet almonds
Provide the main body, fat and flavour of the milk.
Bitter almonds
Add a sharper, more aromatic almond note to the milk.

“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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