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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