Quality Premium Bourbon Vanilla Pods imported from Madagascar
- 100% pure Vanilla Extract - single fold for cooking, baking or homeopathic remedies
Vanilla pods and pure vanilla extract have a variety of uses in the home: Vanilla extract is 100% natural – an extraction from the pods not to be confused with the artificial chemical flavouring you buy in the supermarket know as Vanilla Essence
1 vanilla pod is equivalent to 2.5ml pure vanilla extract (use 6-8 drops of pure extract in place of 5ml vanilla essence)
VANILLA …DID YOU KNOW?
Teething, sick infants : To soothe and please cranky, teething or sick children add 2-3 drops of vanilla extract to their milk or juice
Hyperactive children: Vanilla is a natural calmative so is very effective in calming naturally, place 3-5 drops of pure vanilla extract into the childs juice, milk or water 2 to 3 times per day to help calm the child.
Mosquito problem: Place 2-5 drops of pure vanilla extract into half a cup of water and wipe over the entire body, mosquitoes hate the smell of vanilla. Safe for children and babies.
As an antacid : Add a few drops to oranges, fruit salads, or sauces containing citrus, to soften the sharpness and give it extra sweetening and enhance its taste. Place a few drops of vanilla in tomato sauces to neutralise the acidity.
As an emulsifier : Add vanilla extract or a scraping of seeds from the pod to egg batters (sweet or savory), waffle or pancake mix, baked goods, or cream sauces to smooth and blend overpowering flavors.
As a natural sweetener : Add a few drops of vanilla extract to vegetables, sweet potatoes, and salad dressings. It increases the natural sweetness of vegetables and provides a delicate, subtle flavor to salads.
Flavor for oils when cooking seafood, fowl, and meat: Use with roasted, sautéed or barbequed meats, poultry, wild game or seafood. Split a vanilla bean and place it in a bottle of olive or other quality oils for sautéing meats, poultry, or seafood, or add a few drops of vanilla extract to cooked fish, fowl, or game as well as to sauces and marinades to enhance the natural flavours of the meat.
As a stomach settler, Feeling nervous? : Add a few drops of pure vanilla extract to mineral water or apple juice to settle a nervous stomach.
As a natural calmative? : Place several vanilla beans in a bottle or jar. Use as aromatherapy to soothe jangled nerves by inhaling the aroma. Now days medical facilities use the vanilla aroma to calm patients undergoing MRI and CAT scans
Burnt your tongue on hot food? : Dot a few drops of vanilla onto your tongue to soothe the burn and pain!
Love the flavor of chillies but can't take the heat? : Add some vanilla extract to your chilli or curry dish to dash the bite, the sweet will neutralize the heat and bring out the flavour of the chillies
Fruit flies in the kitchen? : Place a few drops of vanilla extract in a small beverage cap and leave near the fruit flies.
Smelly fridge? : Vanilla absorbs odours, place a few drops of vanilla extract in a small beverage cap and pop into the fridge.
Have insects, bugs or spiders living on the underside of your furniture? Add half a vanilla pod or a few drops of vanilla extract to your furniture polish. Apply to your furniture. Bugs hate like the smell and will stay away, whereas you will have the sweet smell of vanilla lingering in the air.
Painting the home and the fumes are too strong : Cut the smell of paint by adding a tablespoon of vanilla extract to 2 litres of paint.
