![]() Vanilla flavor can be found in many confectionary and chocolate delicacies. ![]() Vanilla is used to make creme sauces, puddings, custards and souffles. Vanilla is mainly used in ice cream, being vanilla a very popular flavor and considered by many default or plain. Natural vanilla will give your food a brown to yellow color, depending on the concentration and how much you use. To get the flavor of vanilla, all you have to do is add vanilla extract to your food. Due to the lengthy labor need to grow, harvest and cure the vanilla beans, the reason why vanilla is considered the second most expensive spice after Saffron. The most genuine and rich vanilla can be found in Veracruz, Mexico, near the Gulf of Mexico. The Melipona Bee only exists in Mexico this being the main reason why Mexican Vanilla is considered the King of Vanillas. It was later discovered that the tlilxochitl the vine that produced the vanilla orchid, had a symbiotic relationship with a little creature the Melipona bee which provided the orchid blooms with the pollination needed for vanilla to grow. The climbing Orchid produced beautiful flowers and foliage but never Vanilla pods. An attempt was made during the next 300 years, to transplant Mexican Vanilla throughout various tropical parts of the world without success. It is said that he took a supply of Vanilla beans upon his return to Spain, with the purpose of adding aroma and flavor to please the King.ĭuring that time, Vanilla became a select beverage to all Royalty and Aristocrats in Europe due to its rarity and high shipping cost. Cortez is credited with introducing both chocolate and vanilla to Europe after he was blown away with this fabulous drink. Impressed with this new flavor, Cortez questioned about this drink aroma and delicious flavor, the Aztecs in return told him it was Vanilla (Little Sheath). In a religious ceremony, when Cortez first met Emperor Moctezuma, he was presented with what they considered a Roya Drink a very special, exotic, drink made with honey, chocolate and vanilla with the name of Xocohotl. Aztecs added to the magic of vanilla by mixing it with chocolate. The Aztecs conquered the Totonacs and developed a taste for vanilla, which they named Tlilxochitl or black flower. According to Totonac legend, the orchid was born when a Totonac princess by the name of Xanat, was beheaded along with her mortal lover whom she was forbidden to marry, when they decided to run away together into the forest and both their blood touched the ground, and then the vine of the tropical orchid grew. Considered a sacred herb, the Totonacs used the Vanilla for medicine, in ritual offerings and as a perfume but barely as a flavoring in their dishes. The first cultivators of vanilla are the Totonacs of Veracruz, Mexico. Mexican Vanilla is a darker and thicker bean it has a strong, smooth, rich aroma, and flavor with a hint of spice. ![]() Native to Mexico, Vanilla is a flavoring that comes from the seed of the climbing tropical orchid, the bean being the only edible fruit of the plant. The name Vanilla comes from the Spanish word Vainilla, which means Little Vaina (Pod) or Sheath. ![]() Wish I knew about this product along time ago.Vanilla is a key ingredient in most desserts like ice cream, chocolates, cookies and cakes. Don't fear this vanilla, it's a great product. I keep a minimum of two bottles of this in my kitchen at all times because I can not run out or life just won't be very good without it. We both are on the keto lifestyle and I use it allot in home made low carb whipped cream and I use it in sugar free Jello Fluff desert, and recently with the summer heat I now make low carb ice cream with it and it all taste great, everyone who tries the deserts made with it says it taste great, even taste better than the other major brand vanilla that cost way way more that I used to purchase. I go through about a bottle a week of it. Fiqured if it was no good it was cheap enough to toss away, but the wife and I love it. After facing the crisis of having to decide between spending a wad of money for real vanilla or use imitation I stumbled across this vanilla and the price was great, reviews were good so I grabbed a bottle to try. ![]()
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