Italian Drink
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Italy
Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
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Ingredients 5 ingredients
Contains
Tree nuts
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Cook safely
Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.
- Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
Method
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- Blanch two ounces of sweet almonds and rub them to a smooth pulp in a mortar with an equal weight of sugar ;
- to this add a single bitter almond, also rubbed to a paste.
- One quart of water should be gradually added in a thin stream to this pulp, and the mixing must continue the whole time.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Mortar and pestle