Just like a painter coats a wall with white paint before layering another color on top, bakers reach for the extract. Just a few drops of bottled extract's strong, concentrated flavor can lay down ...

It was during a recent class on holiday cooking that the subject of vanilla extract came up. One of the items I made was a trendy salted caramel sauce flavored with homemade vanilla. Well, there was ...

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Vanilla originates from the pods of the orchid Vanilla planifolia, a delicate crop that requires manual pollination and careful curing. This labour-intensive process makes natural vanilla one of the ...