It's as easy as almond milk

Almond Milk...never buy store bought again!  No need to when it's this easy.

Ingredients:

1 C. Almonds

4 to 7 Cups Water

Vanilla (Optional)

Honey (Optional)

Equipment required:

Blender

Fine Mesh Strainer

Measuring Cup

Jars for storage

Nut Bag or Cheese Cloth

Almond milk is pretty simple to make but it does take a hot minute to accomplish. First thing is start with is 1 cup of organic high quality almonds. 

Soak your almonds in clean water for a full 24 hours, changing the water every 6-8 hours.  

After you soak them, then you simple take the one cup of almonds and add 4 cups of fresh clean water to the blender and let it do its thing.  The longer the better, and I actually don't add all 4 cups at the same time, I add about 2 1/2 cups and get the almonds chopped up and then add more water as it's blending.  After about 3 minutes on medium I start to strain out some almond milk through a small fine strainer.

I just strain it over a cup that my strainer fits in.  I use a spatula to get most of the moisture out of the almond pulp and then put the pulp in a bowl where I store it for round two in the blender. 

Then I transfer it to a big jar.

 

If you like it super strong then only use the 4 cup ratio, I think I can get way more then 4 cups out of these almonds, so I get another 3 cups of water and throw all the almonds BACK into the blender, add the water and let it go again, this time for even longer, 5 minutes or so.  I strain again, mix the two jars together to get a more even flavor from them both and I get 2 full big jars worth from 1 cup of almonds.  These last about 4-5 days in the fridge.  Mine never lasts that long, so I'm not really sure on the time table but I've read it will keep for 5 days.  

    I use Cheese Cloth to get all the moisture from the almond pulp and I save the almond pulp lay it out on a cookie sheet and let it dry out.  That my friends is first class almond meal that can be thrown into the food processor and made into almond flour which is HIGH DOLLAR, so keep that pulp, sell it, trade it or give it to your girlfriend who bakes if you don't. 

Now, to sweeten it's simple, add honey, about a tablespoon per jar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla to each jar and shake till the honey is dissolved into the milk.

Homemade Almond Milk