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I have begun using rice milk instead of regular milk. The primary reason for this is to avoid spoilage. I don't use regular milk fast enough, so I end up having to throw about half the carton out each time. Rice milk, on the other hand, lasts at least a month and a half.
There are two varieties of rice milk available at the store that I go to: regular and vanilla. The vanilla flavor is good for making horchata1 (which is the very reason that I started buying it). It's also decent for flavoring coffee.
Regular rice milk is good for almost anything else, which for me is just cereal and cooking. It tastes fine in cereal, but I'm still working out how to change the hamburger helper directions to accommodate it. The first batch of hamburger helper turned out too watery, so it might be necessary to decrease the amount of water used by about a 1/4 cup.
1. Horchata is a Mexican rice drink. To make it, start with rice milk, add a pre-bought Horchata mix, and garnish with cinnamon. I got hooked on it when I tried it at La Bamba.
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Posted by Jeramey at Sun Apr 23 15:08:46 2006
For cooking and the like, I've generally found soy milk to be a superior subsitute compared to rice milk. I have found that, when you cook rice milk, the rice solids have a tendency to fall out of the liquid, leaving you with mostly just a sweetly flavored water. Soy milk survives heat much, much better without losing it's consistency.Posted by Luke Hoersten at Sun Apr 23 18:17:11 2006
How does rice milk compare in taste to soy milk? I think soy milk tastes OK but its not something that can be a sudo-milk for me, more of just a replacement. If I drink it with the taste of real milk in mind, it makes me sick =)Posted by Michael Olson at Sun Apr 23 23:32:43 2006
Luke: From what I've tried of soy milk, rice milk tastes a lot closer to real milk.Jeramey: Hmm ... I might have to try keeping some soy milk around for cooking. It will depend on whether my refrigerator can support 3 different milk cartons :^) .
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