Almonds

You could just roast them in the oven (usually 350F for about 12 minutes in the middle). Or you could make

Roasted Almond Milk

Cover 1 cup of roasted almonds in boiling water and let sit for an hour. The slow way involves no boiling water but requires an overnight soak, which I never remember to start. Drain water, rinse almonds. Place almonds with about 3 cups of water in blender, process on high for about a minute.

Strain out the liquid; the last dregs can be had by squeezing the almond paste in a kitchen towel over a funnel or large bowl. The leftover almond paste can be discarded or cooked with; various baked goods come to mind.

I usually add a bit of salt to the milk, though that could be added at other stages as well.

Almond Sugar Bread

I forget where I found this recipe on the Internet. It was pretty tasty, but really has too much sugar.

1/2 cup brown sugar (say 80g)

1/2 cup butter (melted)

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon lemon extract

1/2 teaspoon almond extract

1/8 teaspoon dried lemon peel

2 cups all-purpose flour (say 280g)

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup buttermilk, or instead about 5 teaspoons lemon juice and the remainder in milk, or use buttermilk powder, or just milk

1 cup very chopped almonds, perhaps from making almond milk, above

Cream the sugar with the butter, add in the eggs beating well, add the almond extract. Whisk together the flour and baking soda. Add dry and buttermilk alternating to the batter. Stir in the almonds. Use a heavily greased 9x5 baking pan and bake at 350F for about 70 minutes.

Probably the almonds could be stirred in earlier to better prevent them from lumping, but the above was mostly following the recipe I found somewhere.

White miso can replace the salt.

Very chopped roasted hazelnuts can also be used.

The lemon extract and lemon peel (and a bit less almond extract) are due to reducing the sugar content--the bitters and extra flavors substitute for what might be a too dull loaf from what was originally a sugar bomb with 1 cup (!) of sugar in it. I'm trying to see how low I can get the sugar content, but it still is a sugar bread.

Other

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Almond milk leftovers can also be stirred into the

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