Easy as A-B-C Monday: V is for vanilla extract
No recipe today, just a little tip to save you some money.
My old house had a series of widely spaced, fairly useless, narrow shelves. After a few accidents they ended up housing boxes of tea and jars of spices. My mother came over, looked at the expansive spice rack and asked, “Why would you buy imitation vanilla extract?” I shrugged, not wanting to tell her that I bought imitation because the real stuff was about five dollars more. I was embarrassed though, and after that I started buying the real thing.
But now I’m going back to imitation. America’s Test Kitchen, a source I’d trust with any recipe, assures me that their tasters (and I’m sure there were many) could not discern the taste of imitation vs. real vanilla extract in any of their recipes. The America’s Test Kitchen testers also found that they did not prefer one brand of vanilla extract over another. With that in mind I’m done paying the big bucks for the good stuff when the chemical composition of imitation is identical to the real thing. My cookies will never know the difference.
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