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nut milks
« on: May 08, 2014, 10:37:29 PM »
I made some almond milk a couple of weeks ago - it was dead simple and worked well for tea and such (soak, blend with water and strain).  Oddly enough, every recipe I looked at said it only keeps a couple of days but I found that to be completely untrue, mine kept til it was gone - over a week.
So I decided to try making soy milk.  I ordered some organic beans, they came in today.  The process for soymilk is a bit more involved (you have to cook it after soaking and mixing) but I'm going to give it a try. 
I'll report back with my results.

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« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2014, 10:42:46 PM »
interesting.  I'll be watching for updates.
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« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2014, 06:25:34 AM »
Almond milk IS easy. And yummy.
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« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2014, 07:16:21 AM »
So I decided to try making soy milk.
while at it, give kongguksu a try also:



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Re: nut milks
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2014, 07:31:19 AM »
while at it, give kongguksu a try also:



plus, more deliciousness of kongguksu here.

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Re: nut milks
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2014, 08:39:16 AM »
mango!

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Re: nut milks
« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2014, 10:37:25 AM »
i want to try to make brown rice milk next. I will not buy anything with carrageenan in it and since now i can no longer drink almond milk, soy is my only option unless i make something myself. I could only find almond and soy milk without carrageenan.
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« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2014, 11:40:52 AM »
remind me again why you won't buy things with carageenan?

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« Reply #8 on: May 09, 2014, 02:02:06 PM »
remind me again why you won't buy things with carageenan?
I chose not to buy anything made with it because it can be extremely inflammatory to the digestive system as well as the body. I believe it is also illegal in many European countries. The doctor I saw yesterday was thrilled when I told her i made sure i did not buy carageenan.
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« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2014, 03:21:48 PM »
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« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2014, 04:13:39 PM »
hey mango! 
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Re: nut milks
« Reply #11 on: May 09, 2014, 06:35:28 PM »
I chose not to buy anything made with it because it can be extremely inflammatory to the digestive system as well as the body. I believe it is also illegal in many European countries. The doctor I saw yesterday was thrilled when I told her i made sure i did not buy carageenan.

gotcha... I couldn't remember if it was health or ethics!

does seaweed have the same issues, do you know, or just the extracted product? 

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« Reply #12 on: May 09, 2014, 07:57:04 PM »
Seems to just be carrageenan. Must be something with the extraction/ processing of it that makes it so inflammatory.
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Re: nut milks
« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2014, 02:56:47 AM »
I soaked a cup of dried beans for about 15 hrs.  Then steamed them in the pressure cooker for 20 minutes (some recipes called for cooking them, I found one that recommended steaming for 45 minutes, I thought the PC was a stroke of genius).  Blended with 4 cups of water and strained (a really tedious process).  The results tasted kinda beany.  No one was very impressed.
I will keep trying.

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« Reply #14 on: May 10, 2014, 07:53:23 AM »
thanks for reporting back
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« Reply #15 on: May 10, 2014, 09:58:42 AM »
gebuh, you need your daughter to make you tofu, didn't she used to make tofu?

I love my pressure cooker.

I guess I should find a rice milk recipe and try it this weekend.
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Re: nut milks
« Reply #16 on: May 10, 2014, 11:49:28 AM »
gebuh, you need your daughter to make you tofu, didn't she used to make tofu?

I love my pressure cooker.

I guess I should find a rice milk recipe and try it this weekend.
Yeah she's going to have to - I have 15 lbs of beans to dispose of.  Anybody want any?

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« Reply #17 on: May 10, 2014, 12:04:56 PM »
they do not go bad, dried beans, i would let her make her her own tofu for the next 10 years :D
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Re: nut milks
« Reply #18 on: May 10, 2014, 01:51:36 PM »
as an aside, after squeezing out the liquid you're left with a mass of gunk called okara.  I used it to make vegan crab cakes from here.  I fried instead of baking, they weren't bad, though next time I'll season them a bit differently.

they do not go bad, dried beans, i would let her make her her own tofu for the next 10 years :D
They prolly don't, but after awhile they do get old, I've seen that with other dried beans - keep them around too long and they don't soften well when you cook them.  A few sites I looked at for the soymilk stressed using fresh beans.
But I'll try that also - I have a bag of soybeans in the pantry that dd2 got a couple of years ago from a farmer nearby (we used that to make tofu) - and see how it compares.
I soaked some more beans last night, I'm going to cook them instead of steaming and see if it makes a difference.

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Re: nut milks
« Reply #19 on: May 10, 2014, 02:07:39 PM »
There is a great chocolate cashew milk recipe, as a treat...since it uses agave nectar as sweetener.  Plain cashew milk is good too, though.

http://www.shutterbean.com/2012/raw-chocolate-milk/

 

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