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is café con horchata a big thing in the US? I don't remember seeing it on my travels. It's not widely known in Australia (to us Anglos) but a Mexican friend su
by petecox 9y ago
is café con horchata a big thing in the US? I don't remember seeing it on my travels.
It's not widely known in Australia (to us Anglos) but a Mexican friend supplied me with some and it tasted better than the almond or soy substitutes I've had!
- jiggunjer 9y agoI googled horchata and apparently it is any milk made from nuts of cereal. Including almonds.
- petecox 9y agoI guess it's the seasonings/flavouring they add then. The vegan milks sold downunder taste like sugary, oily, porridge liquid. My soy milk phase ended when I couldn't finish a 1L carton before it turned into a gloopy mess.
- gordaco 9y agoHorchata varies by region. The one I'm familiar with, from Spain, is based on tigernuts. It's a very traditional summer drink and frankly you won't find a different kind of horchata in Spain, unless you search for it in ethnic stores (and even so I'm not sure where I would look for it). Apparently horchata in Mexico is based on rice, and I don't know if there aren't any other versions. I haven't tried rice based horchata, but it soudns very different from the Spanish one, and I'd like to try it some day. I don't know about how has the term evolved in the English speaking word, but no one in Spain will refer to horchata as milk, nor do we use it as a milk replacement (nobody would mix it with coffee, for example). Also we don't use the term as a generic word for vegetal milk at all. Milk and horchata don't really have anything in common aside from being white drinkable liquids.