vanilla
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Why You Shouldn’t Make Your Own Vanilla Extract
Plunking a scraped and spent vanilla bean into an aliquot of alcohol is a good idea. (Those beans are expensive, and you might as well eek out that last bit of flavour.) Buying whole, pricey pods for the express purpose of making your own extract, however, is not a good idea. Simply put: You don’t…
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You Should Rinse Your Empty Vanilla Extract Bottles With Booze
Vanilla is an important ingredient, a complex ingredient, an expensive ingredient. Even if you’re not a big baker, the vanilla bean and its extract can be used to bring nuance, depth, and the implication of — but not the taste of — sweetness to any food or beverage. In addition to sweets, baked and otherwise,…
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Vanilla Is A Cheaper Cleanup Tool For The Mac Menu Bar
macOS: We love Bartender, the $21 app that lets you hide menu bar items of your choice. But there’s a simpler, cheaper app that does the same thing. Vanilla hides your menu bar items for just $7. And you can try it for free.