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Post by sss3 on Dec 23, 2018 18:28:54 GMT
Anyone make rice milk? Recipes I found had dates as sweetener. Didn't have any so used brown sugar. Took a lot of brown sugar. So, what are your recipes? If using dates, where did you get them and how much were they? Aldi's had Medjool dates for $5 a lb.
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Post by feather on Dec 23, 2018 18:43:31 GMT
Anyone make rice milk? Recipes I found had dates as sweetener. Didn't have any so used brown sugar. Took a lot of brown sugar. So, what are your recipes? If using dates, where did you get them and how much were they? Aldi's had Medjool dates for $5 a lb.
I'm not a fan of milk, drinking milk. I don't know why but I've never liked milk, so I've only made plant milk from almonds (which I have quite a few lbs of them, finely ground), and only for cooking. Sorry can't help you on this one.
Shopping:
Walmart chopped dates on the grocery app: $2/8 oz. same price at Walmart online. Besides Aldis, we have woodmans, picknsave, sentry, and meijers. I see their prices are also near the $4/lb to $5/lb. I'm not seeing any better deals.
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Post by sss3 on Dec 24, 2018 2:31:31 GMT
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Post by BrewDaddy on Dec 25, 2018 4:52:20 GMT
I haven't made rice milk for a bit due to logistics with moving, but generally this is my recipe/technique:
1 cup rice 1/4 cup raw almonds
Put in blender pitcher, add about 2-3 cups water, blend a minute or so. Let sit overnight or for at least a few hours. This softens everything up.
Add honey/sugar to taste, vanilla, a pinch of salt, cinnamon.
Blend for 5-10 minutes, add water to desired level, strain, chill and enjoy.
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Post by feather on Dec 28, 2018 20:37:50 GMT
Date sugar is just dried dates. I priced the date sugar and saw that they were more expensive than dates themselves, which makes sense since the water is removed. 1 lb date sugar is 3.1 cups. 1 lb dates is 2.5 cups of pitted dates. The kcalorie value doubles when dates are dried (as seen in chart below). To me it means that there is about 50% water in fresh dates. $12/lb for date sugar. hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/date.html
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Post by feather on Dec 30, 2018 20:42:29 GMT
www.allrecipes.com/recipe/245438/homemade-flax-seed-milk/There is also flax seed milk. 1/2 cup flax seed, 4 and 1/2 cups water, blend and strain. You can see that this is a milk that has much more unsaturated fat (and a little saturated fat), so much richer and it probably should be used sparingly. This would give the milk a much nicer mouth feel. Due to the emulsifying effect of the fat and protein in flax, flax and water can be mixed together to give a substitution for eggs. This is called a flax egg. To make a flax egg, mix one tablespoon ground flaxseed meal (ground flax seed) with three tablespoons of water. Mix together, and let sit in your fridge for 15 minutes to set up and thicken. I, personally, found the rice milk to settle out, and be kind of nothing, except to use in a recipe, but not to drink. A combination of rice and flax might make a better drinkable 'milk'. Dairy milk has 3.25% fat. Rice milk has none. Flax milk has 13% fat. (EDIT: the 13% fat in flax milk, is 'daily value', not percentage, like the dairy milk.)(the 'daily value' of fat in dairy milk is 12%, so very similar to flax milk.)So maybe go from there to concoct something drinkable.
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Post by sss3 on Dec 30, 2018 21:48:45 GMT
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Post by sss3 on Dec 30, 2018 23:14:18 GMT
feather, FWIW I have ground flax seed. Will try it.
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