Vanilla sugar

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 500 g, you will need:

• 1 500 g caster sugar
• 2 5 vanillas pod
• Total weight: 515 grams

Times:

Preparation
30 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1: Remove ends of 5 vanillas pod and discard.
• 2: Cut into 4 or 5 sections.
• 3: Put in a food-processor with 1/4 of 500 g caster sugar.
• 4: Blend 2 or 3 minutes.
• 5: Sieve the result through a fine strainer into a bowl...
• 6: ...until all the sugar fall down.
• 7: Put remaining vanilla pods into food processor, add another ¼ of sugar and repeat the operation.
  Continue until you have used all the sugar.
• 8: At the end, you will have a little sugar left with the vanilla pods that's impossible to sieve. Do not throw it away: use in a recipe like crème brûlée or confectioner's custard (crème pâtissière, or french pastry cream), where you can dissolve it in hot milk which will be then filtered.
• 9: Put your vanilla sugar in an airtight jar and keep, if possible, 3 weeks before using, so that the vanilla aromas mix well with the sugar.
  During these three weeks, stir it with a fork once a week, so that it does not form lumps.

Remarks

You can make multiples of the proportions indicated, but it is important to respect 100 g sugar per vanilla pod.
Don't believe those "recipes" who tell you that putting a vanilla pod in a jar of sugar will give you vanilla sugar, it's a lie because the vanilla pod is impervious.

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