Subject: Making rice milk and/or ice cream.
We make our own rice milk. It’s easy, cheap and you can adjust the sugar and add flavorings as per your preferences (we’re fond of frozen strawberries to make strawberry milkshakes!). You can use this rice milk with frozen bananas to make a sort of ice cream- like treat too. We really didn’t like the price for commercially prepared rice milk and after the info came on the list that one of these commercial products was not necessarily gluten free (the one we used to use) we came up with this recipe:
Rice Milk (need a blender)
Ingredients:
1 cup dry white rice
1 liter (~4 cups) water
1 tbsp (up to ½ cup) white sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
- Add rice and water, let soak room temperature for at least 4 hours or in the refrigerator overnight (we put rice n’ water right into the blender container!)
- Blend rice and water in blender on high for about 1 minute
- Strain out rice from water (SAVING WATER SOLUTION!)
- Add sugar and flavorings (i.e., fruit), blend again
- Refrigerate (we’re comfortable using this within 48 hours; maybe a longer shelf life but we don’t know—never tried!)