RecipeMuncher

Isn’t vanilla the best smell in the world? Yes. The most expensive too. That is why humans have invented synthetic vanillin, a lab-created imitation smell of vanilla pods/beans that naturally contain the organic compound vanillin . For years as I was growing up I wasn’t realizing that this white powder we used to get from the supermarket was fake, synthetic vanilla essence. I mean who would buy fake vanilla powder to put in a home-baked cake?? Well all of Greece obviously and probab (...)