machine made almond milk & tofu

[Guest guest]

I am very interested in buying a soymilk machine but would use it to make

tofu and almond milk. I got to wondering how many almonds I need for each

batch of milk - does anyone have a ratio for almonds to water??? Initially

I thought I'd save some $$$ but after considering the price of almonds,

that may not be true.

 

I'm still going to get it as I am so anxious to have fresh homemade tofu!

 

Anyone here make their own tofu?

 

Jeanne

[Guest guest]

Hi Jeanne. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable

will jump in here to help answer your questions,

but I can tell you what little I know.

I have never made my own tofu or almond milk,

but I love to eat both. I think it is cool you are

considering getting your own machine to make

some from scratch.

I have the Simply Heavenly cookbook, and Abbot

Burke is pretty sketchie on the water ratio in his

recipe for almond milk. From what I can read he

doesn't add any water after he soak-cooks the almonds

and gets their skins off. It says he drains off the water

then and just adds 1/8 teaspoon salt, 1 1/2 teaspoon

vegetable oil, and two tablespoons of sucanat to the

1 cup of cooked skinned almonds. So I am thinking

those almonds must absorb some good amount of the

water used to cook them or it wouldn't make much milk

after blending and straining through the cheesecloth.

Certainly sounds expensive to me considering the price

of almonds!

Now the cashew milk recipe in the same cookbook makes

a bit more sense to me. The ratio is one cup raw nuts to

4 cups water.

Hope some of this was helpful.

 

~ PT ~

 

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, BJ <pinemeadows wrote:

>

> I am very interested in buying a soymilk machine but would use it to make

> tofu and almond milk. I got to wondering how many almonds I need for each

> batch of milk - does anyone have a ratio for almonds to water??? Initially

> I thought I'd save some $$$ but after considering the price of almonds,

> that may not be true.

>

> I'm still going to get it as I am so anxious to have fresh homemade tofu!

>

> Anyone here make their own tofu?

>

> Jeanne

>