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Horchata and Horchata Bites -- back to top

Meredith and I made horchata from the recipe below (tripled). However, we felt like that was too much sugar (3 cups!) so we only did two and figured we could add splenda later if we had to (but we didn't). We also dissolved the sugar in when the water was hot. We used a mixture of thai black rice, and a few others (giving it all a dark color). We added the almonds and let it soak overnight.

The immersion blender was struggling to get through it all so we added some more water and blended it all. We strained it and saved the leftover almond meal.

Here is the real cool thing we did. We took the almond/rice meal, added a bunch of flour (over a cup), about 2 Tbsp baking powder, and 2 beaten eggs. We added flour until it was a nice mixture. We then laid it out on a baking sheet (lined entirely with Non-Stick aluminum foil) and baked it at 350 until it felt done. Basically, entirely by feel. Note that the color comes from the thai rice. There is no coco powder, etc.

The flavor of those bars were really interesting. They didn't taste too sweet at first (almost like it needed more) but then they had a really nice finish and after taste. The rice, being not really cooked, gave it a nice bite and the almond added some good taste. Of course, this is the kind of thing I could NEVER do again. We just played it by ear too much!

The horchata was also good. I liked the flavor and it was better than what I have had in restaurants. Still, it seems like you can buy rice milk and almond milk then infuse cinnamon and sugar for the same basic idea

Horchata De Almendra (From Chef Bud)

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Original Wordpress ID and Date: 6252, 2013-07-04_144005

Horchata -- back to top

I roughly followed the recipe from last time. We were limited by our almonds so we just made about 1.5 times the recipe. We mixed the almonds and (brown) rice. We put in half of soaking water into that bowl. For the other half, we heated it and added the sugar (about 1 cup even though we were increasing the recipe). We also put one cinnamon stick in the hot water. Doing this separately was to dissolve the sugar. We then mixed it all together and let it sit.

We blended it, strained it, and added water. We also added a tiny bit of almond milk since we wanted to have more.

It came out tasting pretty good. Nice amount of sweetness and a strong cinnamon flavor

Original Wordpress ID and Date: 6477, 2013-08-16_094639

Horchata De Almendra

Hemingway's Black Cat Cocktail -- back to top

Meredith made a Hemingway's Black Cat Cocktail (aka Hemingway Daiquiris) from WSJ (local ¹). She used that recipe but added 2-3 charcoal tablets (food-grade tablets, split and poured into the drink). And she added some [regular] simple syrup to temper the sourness.

She made a whole pitcher for a party.

It came out a bit sour and strong, but kind of a fun drink for an early halloween party.