{"id":71916,"key":"Vanilla","title":"Vanilla","latest":{"id":1206100,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T19:31:08Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Vanillaplantwithpods.png|thumb|The vanilla pods are green when growing.]]\n\n'''Vanilla''' is a spice derived from the dark brown pod of certain orchids from he genus ''Vanilla''..<ref name=\"WP\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla</ref> The main source of vanilla is from the Mexican flat-leafed vanilla (''V. planifolia''). The orchid is native to South America.\n\n== Description ==\n\nWhen the vanilla pod is first picked, it is a yellow-green colour. The pod turns the well known brown colour only after it has been cured and dried.\n\n== Growing vanilla ==\n\nTo be added.\n\n(Hand pollination or appropriate bee pollination should be covered.)\n\n== Uses for vanilla ==\n\nVanilla has numerous culinary uses, both sweet and savoury. It is well known in vanilla ice cream, vanilla cake, vanilla custard, etc. Vanilla is often used as a base flavouring for many sweets before other flavourings are added.\n\nVanilla pods can be reused a few times before they no longer release the flavour; just be sure to dry them properly before storing again.\n\n== Sources and citations ==\n\n<references />\n\n* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:Spices]]"}