Home brew orgeat

Crisis averted! Stopped by one local liquor store this evening to find that they just started carrying orgeat by another customer's request. Thanks for the help, Bam Bam and CosmoReverb; I'll file it away for when I'm not panicked and can I plan ahead to make my own orgeat....

Made a batch of the Kaiser Pengiun improved orgeat. It came out quite dark and cloudy due to the skins, but certainly full of flavor - and got a big batch of candied almonds out of it to boot!

On 2017-06-29 09:58, Bam Bam wrote:
Made a batch of the Kaiser Pengiun improved orgeat. It came out quite dark and cloudy due to the skins, but certainly full of flavor - and got a big batch of candied almonds out of it to boot!

Those look like walnuts.

On 2017-06-29 10:04, mikehooker wrote:

On 2017-06-29 09:58, Bam Bam wrote:
Made a batch of the Kaiser Pengiun improved orgeat. It came out quite dark and cloudy due to the skins, but certainly full of flavor - and got a big batch of candied almonds out of it to boot!

Those look like walnuts.

I assure you, they are almonds. I spread out the squeezings and baked them in the toaster oven at low heat for a few hours. Turned them into a kind of brittle.

This weekend I made Kaiser Penguin’s improved orgeat recipe. Very good, and much simpler than other recipes I’ve seen. It’s pretty close to BG Reynolds’ orgeat, which is my standard.