Cashew Milk

Okay, how do you milk a cashew? Does it involve goggles, gloves or steel-toed shoes? How do you tell the boy cashews from the girl cashews?

Never mind. I just made a batch of cashew milk for fun. Here are the ingredients:

3 cups of cold water

1 cup of raw cashews

1 drop of almond flavoring

1 teaspoon of cinnamon

1 dash of sea salt

2 tablespoons of honey (or agave nectar)

Threw it all in my blender and pressed "Liquify." It yielded a quart.

Granted, I don't have a super-duper high-speed Vitamix blender that is recommended by Raw Foodies. So it turned out just a teeny bit grainy. I suppose I could strain it through a cheesecloth. Hey, that's an idea. If I had a cheesecloth. Oh, maybe a coffee filter.

After tasting it, this is my impression: It tastes like horchata. It would be good in coffee, I reckon, or on cereal. All by itself it's a tad sweet. I think next time I make it, I may halve the honey. But not at all bad for my first attempt at vegan milk. And the cashews didn't even kick me while I was milking them!