Vanilla (liquid, extract)

Vanilla refers to the cured seed pods of a tropical orchid, or the extract made from them, prized for their warm, sweet, complex aroma used throughout baking and dessert-making. It is used in the form of whole pods, scraped seeds, extract, or paste, each offering slightly different intensity and convenience. True vanilla is labour-intensive to produce, since the flowers must be hand-pollinated and the pods cured over months.

As a free-flowing liquid, this ingredient fills a measuring cup with no trapped air pockets, so its weight is close to a straightforward density calculation.

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