VANILLA.
Now let me tell you something about an article of commerce which enters largely into the composition of those table delicacies which are so acceptable to you boys and girls Vanilla is the bean of a vine that grows wild in the many forests of Venezuela, New Granada, Guiana, t.nd, in fact, throughout South America. The long pod, which looks like the scabbard of a sword, suggested the name to the Spaniards, vagna meaning scabbard, from which comes the diminutive vanilla, or little scabbard. It is dried before it is fully ripe, dried in the shade, and steeped in a fixed oil, generally that of the cashew nut. It has a strong, peculiar, agreeable odour and a warm, sweetish taste, and is much used by perfumers, and also for flavouring chocolate, pastry, puddings, sweetmeats.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1095, 24 February 1893, Page 16
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135VANILLA. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1095, 24 February 1893, Page 16
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