Title: Orgeat
Categories: Beverages
Yield: 2 Quarts
| 2 | qt | Milk |
| 1 | | Cinnamon stick |
| 4 | oz | Almonds |
| | | Rosewater |
| | | Sweetner of your choice |
SOURCE: Best of the Best from Virginia Cookbook- Selected Recipes from
Virginia;s Favorite Cookbooks, first printing 1991, ISBN #0-937552-41-0.
This one came from The Virginia House-wife. MM format by Ursula R. Taylor.
This is a necessary refreshment at all parties.
Boil 2 quarts of milk with a sitck of cinnamon, then let it stand to be
quite cold, first taking out the cinnamon stick. Then blanch 4 oz. of the
best sweet almonds, then pound them in a marble mortar with a little
rosewater. Mix well with the milk and sweeten to your taste. Boil again
for only a few minutes, just in case the almonds are oily. Strain through a
fine sieve, till smooth and free from almonds; serve it either cold or
luke-warm in glasses with handles.