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n. A milky liquid made from almonds and used as a milk substitute, cooking ingredient or beverage.
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Almond milk is a plant milk with a creamy texture and nutty taste. It contains neither cholesterol nor lactose, and is often consumed by the lactose-intolerant and others who wish to avoid dairy products, including vegans. Commercial almond milk comes in sweetened, unsweetened, plain, vanilla and chocolate flavors, and is usually enriched with vitamins. It can also be made at home using a blender, almonds and water.
It is traditionally consumed through much of the Mediterranean. Within the Italian regions of Sicilia, Puglia, Calabria, Campania it is a protect traditional agricultural product.
Sales of almond milk overtook soy milk in the United States in 2013, and by May 2014 it comprised two-thirds of the US plant-milk market. In the United Kingdom, almond milk sales increased from 36 million liters in 2011 to 92 million in 2013.
Usage examples of "almond milk".
Tyrion was toying with a leche of brawn, spiced with cinnamon, cloves, sugar, and almond milk, when King Joffrey lurched suddenly to his feet.
After the main dishes came a mixed platter of sweet melons and sharp cheeses, which some couch-mates served to each other with their own fingers, and then a delicate ice flavored with almond milk for dessert.
From the platter he shared with Teresa, Dalton plucked up with his second finger and thumb a slice of pear in almond milk.
One of the chief apprentices was boiling rice paste over the fire in a pot of almond milk, making a blanchesweet for the king's dessert.
Behind it, servants brought poached trout and loach, a broth of bacon and onions, a tile of chicken and pork in a spicy sauce and garnished with whole almonds and crayfish, pastries filled with goose liver or fish roe or the flaked flesh of bream or eels, and at last a monstrous caldron of blamangershredded chicken and whole barley grains simmered to a consistency of library paste in almond milk with salt and honey and anise and garnished with fried almonds.