Cacao tree with Vanilla Orchid Growing Up Trunk
I think I'll make me a shake. Haven't had one in a long time.
I’ve gotten used to the fake Vanilla in my oatmeal or pancakes. The real Vanilla can be expensive. This is just for me, not a line of customers.
Oh!
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
In the land of ice and snows
Up among the Eskimos,
There’s a college known as Ogiwawa!
You should hear those college boys,
Gee, they make an awful noise
When they sing an Eskimo tra-la-la!
http://www.heptune.com/lyrics/iscreamy.html
“Today, more than 95 per cent of vanilla-flavoured foods don’t contain vanilla at all, but a synthetic flavouring called vanillin (commonly extracted from wood and sometimes petroleum)”
Author doesn’t know why vanillin is.
Hmmm...
Vanilla ice cream
or
Wood and Petroleum flavored ice cream.
Which one to choose? Decisions, decisions...
artificial vanilla (”Vanillin”) can be made from wood pulp by products. I used to work for a company that made it. Chemically, same stuff as the real.
Problem is, there is only one pulp mill in north america that has the type of waste stream that lends itself to vanillin.
The beaver visual leaves a very bad residue.
I still have a couple ounces of real vanilla extract left. Hopefully it will last me until the crops rebound.
You can save a few bucks with DIY vanilla extract.
Buy some of the beans, put in a jar, along with your favorite alcohol beverage (rum, vodka, bourbon, etc), and keep for a month or two. The longer the stronger.
If you’re starving for vanilla ice cream in Washington, DC, you can find some at Jeni’s ice cream parlor, at 14th and U St. NW. When I last ate there on the day after Halloween last year, I had a cone filled with ice cream flavored with vanilla from Congo-Kinshasa, which would not have been affected by the hurricane.
One of the vanilla ice creams supposedly made with “real” vanilla, is Breyers. Personally, I think several other brands which DON’T use the real deal, taste a whole lot better.
One of the vanilla ice creams supposedly made with “real” vanilla, is Breyers. Personally, I think several other brands which DON’T use the real deal, taste a whole lot better.
Cacao tree with Vanilla Orchid Growing Up Trunk
I think I'll make me a shake. Haven't had one in a long time.
I wonder if vanilla could be grown in Florida...
Interesting. Silver is currently at $529/kg