Here are a few tips for baking/cooking/cocktail-ing with vanilla beans: However, when baking a dish (or making a simple syrup) where the vanilla flavor should really star, vanilla beans definitely have more of a flavor impact. TIPS FOR USING VANILLA BEANSįirst things, first, let's chat about vanilla beans a little bit. Though I love using vanilla beans when baking, I definitely use way more vanilla extract (my mom makes it herself, so I always have a nice stock of it!) since it's less expensive. So, I jumped right in to this simple Simon, but very necessary to my life, recipe. When Quirk Books sent me a copy of Pure Vanilla (affiliate link) by Shauna Sever and I saw the Vanilla Egg Cream recipe, I was immediately all over it. I haven't has an egg cream in years and wanted to go back to my Harriet the Spy roots. I have a feeling people probably often shy away from them due to the name, but those people are definitely missing out! Whatever the case, you should know that egg creams do not have any eggs in them. Others say that when Jewish actor Boris Thomashevsky traveled home from Paris to New York, he asked for a "chocolat et crème" and it was misunderstood as "chocolate egg cream." Some say it's because the drink was based on popular soda shop drinks that included eggs, but during the Great Depression, expensive eggs were replaced with milk. Good question! But guess what? Nobody really knows for sure. It ended up being nothing like I imagined, but I still loved it, partly because it brought me closer to Harriet. And I was shocked to learn that egg creams don't even have eggs in them. I imagined an egg cream would be like a nice thick, creamy milkshake. I had wanted to try them forever and it was finally my chance. I'll never forget taking a trip to New York City with my family and seeing egg creams on the menu of a restaurant we were at. Harriet the Spy had a love of egg creams and when I was a kid, I was intrigued with them for a long time. My point of telling you all this is egg creams. Which I believe makes me a better writer. But my love of writing and being a constant observer remained. Unfortunately, my spy days didn't last long when I was a kid, since I lived in small town Massachusetts and not New York City like young Harriet. Then I started blogging another method for me to share my observations. I kept my own journals from the day I turned seven straight through college. After reading Harriet the Spy, I started my own spy notebooks and I even tried to play her game "Town," which really is like your own made-up version of The Sims before The Sims existed. She was a truly independent and precocious girl interested and observant. I could write volumes on good old Harriet and I truly believe she contributed greatly to making me, me. I owe much of who I am today to Harriet the Spy (affiliate link because even if you're not a kid anymore, you should still read that book!). Not even kidding. (This Vanilla Egg Cream recipe was originally published in November 2012, but was updated with new photos in 2019).
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