Nevada · Drink
Nevada Date Shake
- Easy
- 10 min
- roughly 2 of 4 for cost
- Vegetarian
Leads with a sweet edge rounding the corners, richness that coats and comforts, leaving a faint perfume.
Ingredients
- 8 Medjool dates, pitted
- 250ml cold milk
- 3 scoops vanilla ice cream
- 1/4 tsp vanilla
- Pinch of salt
The skills inside
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The words inside
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Method
- Soak the dates in a little of the milk 10 min to soften. 10 min
- Blend the dates with the milk until smooth, scraping down.
- Add the ice cream, vanilla, and salt.
- Blend just until thick and creamy.
- Pour into a tall glass and serve at once.
How to tell it is going right
This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.
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- Fully submerged with room to swell: the level is well above everything at the start and still above it at the end.
- Given the full time, and judged by what is in the bowl rather than by the hours on the clock.
- Tested at the CENTRE of the largest piece, cut or pressed. Anything with a hard dry core will still have one after cooking, because the outside softens first and stops the water getting further in.
- The soaking water was dealt with on purpose: kept because it holds flavour, or thrown away because it holds what should not be eaten, but never simply left undecided.
- Drained before it is used, so the dish does not silently gain all the water that came with it.
Where it goes wrong Too little water, or too little time. The pieces swell until they are packed tight against each other and the ones in the middle never fully take up water; they will not soften later in the dish either, so the finished plate has hard pieces scattered through it.
At the Table
- The Pour
- It is the pour
- Also Right
- Serve alongside something salty and fried
- From the Taps
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- Zero-Proof
- Already zero-proof unless you made it otherwise
This is the glass, not the plate: judge it on temperature, dilution, and balance, and let the food do the answering.
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