Cooking Tips

Vanilla Beans, Cleaning

vanilla beans 1Cut both ends off of the vanilla bean.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

vanilla beans 2Slice down the middle of the bean to expose the seeds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

vanilla beans 3With the tip of the knife, scrape beans down the length of the bean.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

vanilla beans 4Use the seeds to flavor fruit, pound cakes etc. The remaining bean can be stored in a glass jar with sugar. This will flavor the sugar and you can use the sugar in any sweet recipe.

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