A sprinkle of ground cinnamon adds an aromatic finishing touch.
HORCHATA—AS MANY Americans know it, at least—is an iced, milky drink made from rice and flavored with cinnamon and vanilla. Horchata is a popular flavor for anything from ice cream and ice pops to lattes and cocktails. Indeed, Starbucks has featured an Horchata Almondmilk Frappuccino, McDonald’s has experimented with an Horchata Frappe, and Good Morning America cited a report that named horchata a top ice cream flavor of 2019.
But horchata is no flash-in-the-pan food trend. The root of the name “horchata” is the Latin “hordeum” (barley) and “hordeata” (an ancient drink made from barley). Spanish horchata, a beverage made from tigernuts (or chufa nuts) that is still popular throughout Spain and claimed by Valencia, came to that country with the tigernuts from Egypt and North Africa during
