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This posting would have had photographs, but my camera is attached to my phone, which in its turn is recalcitrant and did not save anything. I am most unimpressed.

Anyway.

The first thing to note is that this country apparently does not believe in vanilla sugar, by which I mean "you can buy very small pots for very large amounts of money and then you use it and it's finished."

This is not the correct way to do anything.

The correct way to do it is to rinse out an empty jam jar or other suitable receptacle, let it dry thoroughly, and put a vanilla pod into it (or half a vanilla pod, if you are like me and your jam jar is small and your vanilla pod is large and anyway you'd already used half of it), and then you fill it up with caster sugar, which you replace as you use it. Ta-da.

(This is, in fact, the Correct Way To Store Vanilla Pods also. No point letting all the lovely aromatics swill about in the jar they were sold you in when you could be generating delicious vanilla-flavoured sugar.)

There are many ways to use vanilla sugar. One of my favourites is on top of Ribiselkuchen. Or in Vanillekipferl. Or dusted over Kaiserschmarrn.


Today, however, I used it in tiny peach-raspberry crumbles.

I took:
  • two gu pots
  • half a tin of peaches
  • a handful of frozen raspberries
  • a sprig of fresh basil, chopped
  • buckwheat & plain flours, brown sugar, 1tsp vanilla sugar, butter


The wet ingredients I placed in the gu pots. The dry ingredients I turned into crumble topping by the expedient of rubbing fat into... dry stuff, okay. They were baked at approx. 200degC until they were done, and I thought they were delish but my whiny neighbour (gave me pneumonia, complained about fesenjan) asserted that they "taste[d] like pizza", but what does he know.

Maybe next time I will get around to making the basil-condensed milk-yoghurt concoction I was vaguely planning, instead of just having the yoghurt neat.

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Date: 2011-12-16 05:30 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] noldo
alex may i eat your food

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Date: 2011-12-16 05:33 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] noldo
what what what sort of awful person doesn't like leeks

that is like not liking sunshine and happiness

or wales

who doesn't like wales okay bless its little cotton socks

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Date: 2011-12-16 05:38 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] noldo
also no what sort of inhuman monster doesn't like fesenjan

i just

i am having a moment of having all my assumptions about the world challenged here okay

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Date: 2011-12-16 06:13 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mustela_nivalis
Wait I might actually fall in the category of people who thinks fesenjan shouldn't be too sweet. That said, I've only had it like thrice.

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Date: 2011-12-16 06:42 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] sorrillia
I, too, am disturbed and horrified by people disliking leeks.

I have considered wearing one in my hat on various St. David's days past, though laziness has always prevented my doing so. (My dad is a quarter Welsh-American, though he would find the idea of doing something Welsh-nationalist abhorrent, and I would be doing it more from amusement at the idea and love of leeks than from a particular desire to promote resistance to English tyranny.)

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Date: 2011-12-16 09:48 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] naath
That sounds lovely. NOM CRUMBLE.

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Date: 2011-12-16 01:22 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] hairyears
Ewt has made Vanilla Sugar, with fresh pods brought back from Mauritius by DoseyBat.

I mention this purely for information.


Have you tried making cinnamon sugar?

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