101 uses for an empty vanilla pod | Kitchen aide

Those expensive pods will bring their heavenly aroma to syrups, compotes, baked goods, desserts – and even your underwear drawer Can you do anything with vanilla pods once you’ve scraped out the seeds? They’re so expensive. Jo, by email “I put them in my knicker drawer,” says Sarah Lemanski, owner of Nova Bakehouse in Leeds. “They scent it nicely, that’s for sure.” But, culinarily speaking, and beyond custards and the like, Lemanski often uses them in vanilla syrup: “Chop the pod quite small,...

By Anna Berrill