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vanillaAny of a group of climbing orchids native to tropical America but cultivated elsewhere, with large, fragrant white or yellow flowers. The dried and fermented fruit, or podlike capsules, of the species V. planifolia are the source of the vanilla flavouring used in cookery and baking. (Genus Vanilla.) Annual world production of vanilla pods is estimated at 1,500 tonnes. Vanilla flavouring (vanillin) can now be produced artificially from waste sulphite liquor, a by-product of paper pulp-making. vanilla
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| It was pronounced a great success--excellent if it had only contained a little less vanilla or a little more sugar, if it had been frozen a degree harder, and if the salt might have been kept out of portions of it. The broad road was shaded by pepper-trees, and on each side were the plantations, cocoa-nut and vanilla. ‡ There is cultivated in the king's garden at Paris, a species of serpentine aloes without prickles, whose large and beautiful flower exhales a strong odour of the vanilla, during the time of its expansion, which is very short. |
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