Maple syrup tends to have a lower glycemic index when compared with honey, and has lightly less sugars per tablespoon. You can try this with honey and see if you prefer it that way.

Because it has no additive stabilisers, it can separate when heated or added to hot tea. It doesn’t taste like sour milk, it just separates and looks like sour milk. The answer is to shake it in order to remix it.

Kate, this is wonderful! I just tried it for the 1st time, making a 1/2 recipe with 1/2C soaked cashews and 2C water, and 4 split soaked degglet noor dates for sweetener – very good! I made a delicious discovery. I started with 1/2 C cashews, dates, and only 3/4C water, to be sure they would blend well. Nothing else. I tasted the cream before adding the rest of the water and it was amazing. I could see making a pudding from that, that would be incredible. I can highly recommend to other review readers that making a cream at 1:1.5 ratio (nuts to water) Is a fantastic way to start. It blends everything very thoroughly, then pour off cream before adding the rest of the water for milk, and get both!

I did need to strain because the dates didn’t blend completely. (Just a steel strainer, no messy bag). I’ll experiment with both no dates (this was very sweet) and a longer soak. This is SO worth it, and almost no mess! So much better than oatmilk!
(BTW, Aldi has organic raw cashews at very reasonable prices. Not many other options near me.)

Hi Kevin, thanks for sharing your use of dates.