While 8 weeks is the minimum recommended time, you can let it age for even longer for a more robust vanilla taste. Our Mexican extract was made here in the United States with Mexican vanilla beans following the Standard of identity. While vanilla is very expensive right now, we only use a little, and it improves with aging so it won’t go bad if you keep it in a cool, dark place such as a cupboard away from the stove.

They most likely used a metate to extract the oils from whole vanilla beans to add to their chocolate caliente and atole drinks. Authentic Origin: Directly sourced from Mexico, capturing the genuine essence of its celebrated vanilla heritage. Because of the high alcohol content, vanilla will age for about two years and will then remain stable. Unfortunately, the majority of companies don’t add that to their ingredients lists nor do they mention if they use caramel color (another sugar).

The Totonacs, inhabitants of the coastal regions of the Gulf of Mexico, were the first to cultivate vanilla. Since the creation of our company in 2015, we have been driven by the ambition for excellence and the desire to always go further in the quality and taste of the products that we source and supply. Hopefully you’re up for this as it’s actually pretty interesting to learn more about our favorite flavor and fragrance because most of us don’t know more than that they really love it.

It has been a highly successful scam (there are no label laws nor controls over what is put into the bottles) that is doing far better than Mexican vanilla beans, which are suffering from extreme heat and the industry is all but finished.This step-by-step guide will help you create a high-quality, aromatic extract that will step up your dessert recipes with the smooth, creamy, and flavorful essence of Mexican vanilla. I also provide a lot of assistance to growers worldwide as well as assist women leaders who are farmers or work with farmers. I am a serious cookie baker, and one of my secrets was to bury one of those dried up things in my sugar container.

When you do a taste test of Mexican vanilla extract versus another vanilla extract, the differences may not be apparent immediately. The indigenous people of Mexico, including the Totonacs and Aztecs, were the first to cultivate and use this sacred herb in medicine and recipes, including their chocolate-based beverages. Now, compared with imitation vanilla, it has some redeeming qualities as it does contain pure vanilla.For more information on the Standard of Identity, read the response I gave to Mitchell’s questions on 09/04/2020. While vanilla is mildly sweet and doesn’t need sugar to boost its flavor, if sugar cane alcohol is used for extraction, it has a harsh nose. I still have a bottle of Villa Vainilla that was given to me by a sweet representative of their company who sent me a bottle.

Baking: Add Mexican vanilla extract to your favorite baked goods such as cookies, cakes, muffins, and bread. This is the reason why Mexican Vanilla is the finest for flavor and fragrance throughout the world, and truly is the King of Vanillas! Be sure not to confuse mould with the shiny, reflective crystals of vanilla that can form on the outside of your vanilla. the beans will lose nearly 80% of the original moisture content before their more than 250 natural flavor and fragrance components are completely developed. So, you would need 35 grams of vanilla for a 350 mL bottle of alcohol or approximately 10-12 gourmet grade vanilla beans (or about 15 – 18 extract grade) to make approximately 12 ounces of extract.I get my beans from Voladores Vanilla, which offers the best I’ve found and they are sourced directly from Veracruz. A mystery to the world until 1836, a Frenchman observing very closely the original Vanilla plant, in Mexico, discovered the reason.