vanilla beans
Fragrant baking pods
Vanilla beans are the long, slender seed pods of a tropical orchid, used as flavoring.
The pods are harvested green, then cured until dark and pliable, developing the characteristic sweet, floral aroma.
Inside are thousands of tiny black seeds—the specks visible in vanilla ice cream.
Most commercial vanilla extract comes from these beans: She scraped the seeds from a vanilla bean into the custard.
- orchidShowy tropical flower
- podSeed case or cetacean group
- bakingCooking with dry heat
- pastry chefCook specializing in desserts
- flavoringSubstance adding taste
curing process · sweet · seed pod · desserts · brown · pollination · tropical agriculture · Mexican origin · spices · homemade · fair trade · saffron · cured · aromatic · cardamom · cinnamon · traditional methods · nutmeg
- Vanilla
- dry goodsspices, salt, sugar, wheat, corn
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- potpourridried flowers, rose petals, lavender, cinnamon sticks, cloves
- Specialty Cropssaffron, truffles, truffle, wasabi, microgreens
- TotonacVeracruz, coastal plains
vanilla beansvanilla extract
Concentrated bean-based flavoring
imitation vanilla · vanillin · vanilla essence · vanilla paste
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Pungent, heat-bearing fruits
plain · raw garlic · horseradish · unflavored · wasabi
vanilla beanstable salt
Common food seasoning
white sugar · black pepper · dried oregano · ground cinnamon · baking soda