1st Friday of Lent meal

 

Taken from Medieval Cookery

This morning, I tried to make almond milk with my new fangled Christmas gift of a soy milk machine.  It worked -and I had hot chocolate- but I ended up with a lot of ground up almond paste.  I looked up recipes that use almond paste and this was one of the ones that sounded both simple and pretty decent.  Plus, I got to use up the rice from Wednesday!  Woohoo!

The Almond Porridge; yes it looks like milk

Ingredients

1/2 cup of almonds ground into paste

1/2 cup of rice ground into paste

1 tablespoon brown sugar

Raisins for garnish

Really, just heat the pastes together and you have the porridge.  I added too much water to the rice paste and the porridge came out more as a very thick soup.  

I ended up eating it more as a dip for these lovelies:

It was DELICIOUS that way.   I highly recommend it.  I may have also gotten the good dates and eaten those as a side dish...