Anyone make vanilla sugar?

Hopefully someone will see this. I thought I saw something about that in the canning thread but that has been some months ago. Maybe if you search it, it might come up?

 

just keep shaking it around...

what a friend of mine does is just splits the bean and leaves it whole not scraping it out and it works well too and easy to pull the bean out when done


(on a side note i read the title quickly and this was what i read "anyone else make vodka" i did a double take fast...lol time for the eye doc again i think...)

 

Yep, shaking it is the trick. I leave the bean, or whatever else I'm using, in the sugar. That way all you have to do is keep adding sugar to the jar. Just give it a few hard shakes before you use it. If it's clumpy, break it up into small bits with a fork and shake it like a 007 martini.

 

I don't scrape the insides out, I just cut a small slit in the bean and stick the whole thing in the jar. Even the bean itself, without any seeds, will give sugar a wonderful vanilla flavor and aroma.

 

I use the vanilla bean "guts" for recipes, then just throw the leftover beans into a pot of sugar. Over time you'll get lovely vanilla sugar AND you won't waste the teensy beans, which can be used for other things.

 

most people throw the empty bean pods in the sugar after they use the seeds for something else