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                 You have to make sure the vanilla is bone dry
                                        
About a week and a half ago, I used a vanilla bean when making some ice cream
(yeah yeah, when the Bunny's away the carrots will play [1] or something like
that). I've seen on various television shows [2] that you can dry the used
vanilla bean and place it in sugar for a week or so to make vanilla sugar.

Hey, why not?

After I was done with the vanilla bean, I dried it off and shoved it into a
contain of sugar in the spice cabinet. Only, I don't think I got it dry
enough:

[It's a vanilla bean! A VANILLA BEAN I say! Not some arachnid horror from the
cocaine fields of Columbia] [3]
 

But the sugar smells wonderful [4].

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/07/29.1
[2] http://www.foodnetwork.com/
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2015/08/11/rocksugar.jpg
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2015/04/10.1

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