Orgeat
Orgeat is a syrup with no alcohol in it, not yet used in a drink on this site.
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Jars and a bottle of cloudy pale orgeat standing on a kitchen counter
Making it
refrigerated and sealed. A shelf life here is conservative bar practice rather than a food-safety authority's figure, and it assumes the preparation was bottled clean and cold.
Widely sold. Commercial bottles are usually almond-flavoured rather than almond-based, which shows in the texture as much as the taste.
Composition
Derived from the ingredient records — Two things here are modelled rather than derived. The density is the syrup-like class, because the almond solids suspended in it have no measured density anywhere and volume additivity would therefore understate the volume they occupy. And the share of the almonds that carries through the press is a stated fraction. Everything else follows from the ingredient records. Every figure here is derived from the ingredient records this recipe names, not measured in a bottle: mass and volume are summed over the lines and the density falls out of the two. The method is worth one check - a one-to-one syrup comes out at 1.228 g/ml against the 1.230 published for a 50% sucrose solution at 20 degrees, a difference of 0.15%. It is marked estimated because a derivation is not a measurement.
Used in these drinks
most firstNothing on the site uses this yet. It is here because a preparation or a drink names it.
Method
4 steps · 2h 14mGrind the 200 g blanched almonds to a coarse meal. Fine enough to give up their oil, coarse enough to strain.
Cover the meal with the 350 ml water, warmed to about 60 °C, and leave it to steep until cool.
Strain through muslin and wring the meal out hard. The last of what comes through is the richest part of it.
Stir the 350 g granulated sugar into the almond milk until it is completely dissolved, then stir the 10 ml orange flower water through at the end, off the heat, where its aroma survives.
The amounts above are the batch this recipe makes, not a portion of it, and they do not scale with any drink count — a preparation is made once and then measured out of.