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Don't Throw Away That Used Vanilla Bean Pod — Reuse It Instead
Vanilla beans infuse sweets with their delicious flavor. While many bakes use the seeds within, the pod is also useful for infusing vanilla ice cream, milk, or even a three-ingredient crème ...
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The Delicious, Ancient History of Chocolate and Vanilla
Cracking cocoa beans into nibs is a step in the long process of creating chocolate. Alamy Vanilla pods. Alamy Some 75 years after Cortés returned to Europe with the pods, Hugh Morgan, the ...
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Vanilla Bean, Paste, Or Extract: When To Use Each For Your Dessert
But the extract is made by steeping vanilla beans in alcohol. Vanilla beans are the pods of a flowering plant. And then there ...
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Oldest Vanilla Pod in Europe Found in Prague
PRAGUE CASTLE, CZECH REPUBLIC—La Brújula Verde reports that excavations within Prague Castle yielded the oldest vanilla bean pod in Europe. Mesoamerican cultures such as the Maya and Aztecs had ...