Using Almond Milk for Preparing Instant Pudding

[debodun]

I read on the package not to use soy milk as it will not thicken. It got me wondering if the same applied to almond milk. I researched saw this which says to use around half the amount of almond milk as the amount for dairy milk.

https://www.leaf.tv/articles/how-to-make-pudding-with-almond-milk/

 

[terry123]

Never understood how they could call ground up almonds and water, milk. Guess it depends on what milk means to you. I drink 1% milk with my breakfast. Would never consider anything to do with all the "new milk" drinks around now. Dairy milk here.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I prefer dairy milk but I use unsweetened almond milk for a variety of reasons.

I haven't made pudding in years but every now and then I'll pick up a Snack Pack for a dollar, I can't make it for that.

I wish that I could find this one in the local stores.

 

[RadishRose]

Never understood how they could call ground up almonds and water, milk. Guess it depends on what milk means to you. I drink 1% milk with my breakfast. Would never consider anything to do with all the "new milk" drinks around now. Dairy milk here.

You're right. Almonds don't lactate!

 

[Lethe200]

This made for interesting reading this morning. Almond orchards are already environmentally suspect as they use HUGE - and I do mean, huge - amounts of water compared to other crops. California, which grows virtually all the almonds in the U.S., has begun to see farmland sink from 1-4' because of excessive irrigation pulled from the state's aquifer:

'Like sending bees to war': the deadly truth behind your almond-milk obsession
Bees are essential to the functioning of America’s titanic almond industry – and billions are dying in the process
London Guardian U.S. 08Jan2020

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/07/honeybees-deaths-almonds-hives-aoe

 

[Catlady]

I have used soy milk to make the cheese sauce for macaroni and cheese and also for Moussaka, and it DID thicken. I have not yet used almond milk.

 

[Catlady]

Never understood how they could call ground up almonds and water, milk. Guess it depends on what milk means to you. I drink 1% milk with my breakfast. Would never consider anything to do with all the "new milk" drinks around now. Dairy milk here.

I think they use the term "milk" to mean something that is liquid and creamy. They also say ''coconut milk''. They also call nuts ''meat'' even though they're not animal flesh.