Vanilla Beans mix with everything

Vanilla bean: Everyone loves the flavo of vanilla. The distinctive bourbon flavour of gourmet vanilla pods can be highly sought after by top chefs throughout the world. It's a little known fact that vanilla enhances other flavours and can be mix with everything. In order to reach maturity, a vanilla vine takes three years. Farmers should carefully nurture their vines until they are ready to bear flowers. Flowers rarely occur in nature. They only occur when a plant is stressed. Each flower has to be pollinated by hand. Then one by one the green beans start to appear. After six months the mature green beans should be hand-picked and painstakingly cured using carefully controlled methods, evolved over many years, to produce the dark brown pods we recognise as vanilla. A huge amount of skill, love and care goes into creating the luscious flavour of top quality vanilla.

Vanilla extract can be easily made. All it requires is a few key ingredients and a long wait. Patience has its rewards though, and here, you can able to make more flavorful and delicious cakes, cookies and other desserts with the addition of it. It all starts with the vanilla pod or bean. Choose vanilla pods which have a deep dark brown color. They should also be pliable enough that you can wrap it around your finger, without it breaking.

The intensity of vanilla flavour in a vanilla pod is actually defined by the amount of a natural substance called vanillin which is present. 1.8% is the minimum for gourmet quality... But vanillin on its own won't offer a true bourbon flavour. Another 250 naturally occurring aromatics must also be present. Only the most highly skilled curing ensures the full spectrum of flavour components are present.

The distinctive bourbon flavour is actually sought after by top chefs and vanilla connoisseurs alike comes from a single variety of plant called Vanilla Planifolia. Only the finest beans from each year's crop are picked up for the gourmet market. To retain its flavour, freshness and quality gourmet vanilla always has a higher moisture content than extract grade. 

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