Native Vanilla Grade A Bourbon Vanilla Beans – 10 Premium Gourmet Whole Pods – 6_5 to 8 Beans – For Chefs and Home Baking Brewing Cooking – Make Homemade Pure Vanilla Extract and Vanilla Bean Paste

The Different Uses and Varieties of Bourbon Vanilla Beans: Bourbon Vanilla is a generic term for Vanilla Planifolia and is the variety of vanilla most commonly used for producing vanilla extract. Vanilla Planifolia stock originated in Mexico, vanilla’s birthplace, but cuttings were taken to other tropical regions in the 1700s. This type of vanilla is ideal for use in baking, as well as desserts such as ice cream and crème brulee. In the 1800s, the French developed large plantations on the Bourbon Islands (now called Reunion) off the coast of Madagascar, hence the name Bourbon Vanilla. The name has no relation to Bourbon alcohol.