Almond milk: first try

As promised, here are the results of my first attempt at making a nut milk. I pretty much followed Sarah's instructions. It is really easy: you will need a 1:4 nuts to water ratio. You can sweeten your nut milk by adding a date, raisins or honey. And when you serve it, a little cinammon and ice goes a long way.

One night before you start leave your nuts in a pan, soaking while they are completely covered in water. Then you will have to peel them. You should make sure you get non-pasteurized nuts, because the pasteurization process will fuse the skin to the nut making them very hard to peel. My advice here is just get peeled nuts. The boy and I spent quite a while peeling the nuts and it was not super fun. (Even if, yes, you can just push the skin away, it is kind of tedious and time-consuming).

Now for the fun part, put the nuts in the blender together with the water (250 gr nuts for 1 liter water) and mix until completely homogenous, you don't want any big chunks left. Next get your cheese-cloth ready (an old, washed t-shirt works as well) and pass the milk through it. Squeeze to get all the goodness out of it and voilà. I added a little bit of honey every time I drank some. It has a different taste for sure, you have to get used to it, but it's nice in its own way.

On a last note, don't throw away the nut-pulp. You can use it to make hummus or dry it to make flour, by baking the nut rests at 115ºC.  Have you ever made nut milk? Rice milk? Oatmeal milk? Do you have any tips or ideas?