HOME MADE RICE MILK

Posted By: Josie (A) <sholt@cableol.co.uk>
Date: Friday, 18 June 1999, at 5:02 p.m.

As I posted a sometime ago I have been experimenting making my own rice milk. I have come with an improved method that cuts the worry about using 'left over' water in which the rice has been cooked. I noticed whilst I was cooking some rice pasta the other day that the water was very like rice milk again so I looked at the ingredients and it only contained 100 % organic rice flour and water so the next day I went into my local health food store and bought some organic rice flour. It's quite cheap to buy compared with the rice milk. I also bought one last carton of the (very expensive) 'rice dream' to look at the ingredients and to compare the taste with the home made stuff. The rice dream which is the only rice milk available in here contains 'safflower oil' and sea salt. I didn't realise this and safflower oil is an avoid for A's and I understand it is also 'avoid' for O's!! I realised that the slight difference in taste with the home made rice milk was the lack of oil in it...then I made a new batch using a pint of water+ 2 tablespoons of milk, and some mapple syrup to sweeten + a VERY SMALL pinch of sea salt. When the right consistency was achieved I turned it off the cooker and stirred in a little LIGHT olive oil (the extra virgin is too strongly flavoured in this case). You have to make sure it is well stirred. Done like that the consistency of the drink and taste is very much improve and I find it also lasts longer. IT can be sweeten with white sugar if there are no objections to using that...I tried the dark molasses sugar and it didn't work too well...the flavour and colour wasn't right somehow. I have just discovered that rice flour is HB for my A type and neutral for my O daughters so we are all happy and we can choose not to have the safflower oil in it. You can make it as thick or thin as you like and it doesn't have the grainy texture that I got using ground rice. It needs to be chilled in the fridge for best results and we have been having it mixed really cold with half soya milk as a delicious drink...the kids love it and it's the best substitute for 'horchata' (someone was enquiring about the recipe for horchata recently) that I have found. It can be kept in the fridge for around four days and a small bag of rice milk will go a long way! Hope this is of some help to you people.

take care all!
Josie

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