Cathryn
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Vanilla Pods...downsizer bulk buyI am going to buy us a kg from this company.
Vanilla Mart
Based in Kent, United Kingdom, we are specialist importers and retailers of quality Vanilla Pods from India. Our clientele include wholesalers, retailers, restaurants, bakeries and the discerning public!
All our Vanilla is sourced from farmers co-operatives in South India ensuring quality whilst paying a fair price to the grower. The Vanilla is grown and cured using traditional methods to ensure freshness and a distinctly rich aroma with high Vanillin content.
They work out at a ridiculously low price. Vanillin content is 2.1% and the pods are around 15cm in length. Perhaps Sally-in-Wales can do a taste test for us for future purchases. Based on a low estimate of 200 pods per kg it works out at about 13p a pod!
Can you pm me with the quantity you want in multiples of 10 please. Put Vanilla as the subject of your message.
I will place the order when it looks as if I won't need to find a use for a kg of vanilla and then work out more accurate costs. Postage is going to be pretty low, pods don't weigh much.
Better go and tidy my message box. 
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tahir
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PM sent 
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sally_in_wales
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I think various relatives are going to be getting kilner jars for Christmas, filled with maybe 5 pods and topped up with caster sugar. Would make very nice prezzies I reckon and at this price extremely affordable
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Jonnyboy
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Pm sent, good work Cathryn, thanks!
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woodsprite
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PM sent, fab I was wondering about suggesting just such a bulk buy myself!
Diamond girl. 
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Cathryn
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I can take no credit for finding these, Sally sent me the link.
The ensuing chaos will be mine, all mine. 
1/2 kg gone already so it looks like I will be ordering 2kg.
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jocorless
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PM sent
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Jamanda
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Just in I get left off the list, we'll have 20.
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alison
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pm sent
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Cathryn
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First kg gone.
Carry on.
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Soapnutter
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PM sent....
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RichardW
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PM sent
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alice
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PM sent. Thanks.
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Barefoot Andrew
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PM Sent
A.
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carolyn
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PM sent
Thanks
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JB
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Just checking now with Mrs JB as to how many we might get through
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mochyn
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I'll pm you, old girl...
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Cathryn
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Less of the old...
Anyone else? I will place the order this evening.
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SmattyB
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PM sent,
Thanks.
(nice prezzi idea as well SIW)
Matt.
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lottie
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P.M. sent---thanks
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Fee
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Am I too late
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sean
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No, this is Cathryn, you've got about a fortnight before the order actually gets placed.
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Cathryn
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3kg ordered and to be delivered to your place by Thursday in fact.
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sean
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Just in time for us to bugger off on hols. No-one needs this stuff urgently do they?
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yummersetter
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message with order sent this afternoon, thank you for taking the trouble.
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JB
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I just mentioned this to Mrs JB again. When I said it works out at about 13p a pod her response "I'll have 50"  and she meant it
(not as silly as it sounds - if they'll keep for two years she'll take a load into the school to resell to the kids rather than have the kids pay a pound a pod in the local supermarket)
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Cathryn
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Anymore anyone?
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Cathryn
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All weighed out now. Will let you know total to pay this weekend.
You can go off vanilla you know.
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Simon
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Why's it locked? Just wondering. Thought it must be Vanilla Mafia or somfink?
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Cathryn
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Because just as I finished counting out 934 vanilla pods I got another message from someone else asking for some.
So stop cheating that Simon *slapping wrists sharply*
I'll open it again when I am about to post out.
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Cathryn
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You should all have had pm's now. Let me know if I have missed you.
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RichardW
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Missed me lol.
I know I asked for £x worths lol.
Richard
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Soapnutter
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Got it, paypal'd you!
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Cathryn
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| RichardW wrote: | Missed me lol.
I know I asked for £x worths lol.
Richard |
Yes but I know your address and I owe you money. So I've sent it.
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Jonnyboy
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Paid, a big thank you to Cathryn!
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Cathryn
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And please when you receive it, let me know if I have got your order wrong...
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Fee
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| Jonnyboy wrote: | | a big thank you to Cathryn! |
Here, here.
Thank You
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tahir
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No PM
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woodsprite
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All done, thanks Cathryn!
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JB
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Communal round of applause for Cathryn
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Cathryn
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Will you all stop it, I blush easily.
And someone start a "What to do with all this vanilla thread..."
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JB
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It's arrived! Thank you
now then. "What do I do with all this vanilla ..."
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jema
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Vanilla vodka is on
Is it just me are do these pods seem comparatively rather good?
thanks Cathryn
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RichardW
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mine have arrived too, thanks
So now what lol. I have always been very reserved in my pod useage due to cost.
Richard
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sally_in_wales
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stick some in sugar and use the sugar liberally. Make icecream or custard and scrape a whole pod into it
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Cathryn
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Ice cream sounds rather good.
They are shorter but fatter than usual aren't they.
(And I edited your post Jema.  )
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jema
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| Cathryn wrote: | Ice cream sounds rather good.
They are shorter but fatter than usual aren't they.
(And I edited your post Jema. ) |
I can guess I get it done to me constantly.
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RichardW
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| Cathryn wrote: | Ice cream sounds rather good.
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Ok Ok I get the hints lol
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Fee
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Ooh, ooh, ooh, mine arrived too, thank you VERY much
I was expecting to see a "What do I do with all this vanilla" thread
Here's what I'll be making:
Vodka, fresh lemon juice, vanilla sugar and soda with a few slices of lime and crushed ice.
Will HAVE to make some vanilla ice-cream (hmmm, could do that with my niece next week!).
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lottie
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Can't wait--love using real vanilla nothing like it but it's usually so pricey.
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Cathryn
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I'll be in anytime in the morning Lottie so just call. (Although I do plan on being asleep til at least at 8.30 for once.)
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cab
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Hmmm... Vanilla. I could smell it when I came into the house this evening, I knew it had come when I opened the door
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Fee
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| cab wrote: | | Hmmm... Vanilla. I could smell it when I came into the house this evening, I knew it had come when I opened the door |
Me too, I saw the envelope and thought, "ooh, what's that" (in the way you do when an exciting looking parcel arrives, or is that just me?), then I got a waft
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Jonnyboy
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Mine arrived today, what a lovely smell, and they look good quality too.
I've got cracking already; a simple baked egg custard with a pint of milk, 4 eggs, two egg yolks, some caster sugar and a lovely fat vanilla pod. yummy.
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Soapnutter
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Mine's here too, thanks!
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Barefoot Andrew
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| Fee wrote: | | Me too, I saw the envelope and thought, "ooh, what's that" (in the way you do when an exciting looking parcel arrives, or is that just me?), then I got a waft |
Me too Ace aroma!
A.
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gnasher
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oh dear - I wish I had paid more attention to this thread earlier 
you sleep you weep!!
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kidzrags
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| gnasher wrote: | oh dear - I wish I had paid more attention to this thread earlier
you sleep you weep!! |
Me too, maybe next time
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Cathryn
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I have had a few similar pm's so maybe next time might come around quite soon.
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jema
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At that sort of price, it increases your choices in how to use them Ours are diminishing fast.
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Cathryn
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It's going to cost me quite a bit...
Lottie called to pick her's up earlier and left me with a box of lovely deep brown eggs. I am now determined to get my hen house back and add a marran, a blue egg layer (yes Chez, I know who to come to) and a white egg layer to the current flock. Everytime I have any contact with downsizers it costs me a fortune.
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Northern_Lad
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| Cathryn wrote: | | Everytime I have any contact with downsizers it costs me a fortune. |
Yeah, but last time you got to slip £10 into my back pocket for services rendered. 
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Cathryn
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Shhhhhh, I have my reputation to consider even if yours is long gone.
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Northern_Lad
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| Cathryn wrote: | | Shhhhhh, I have my reputation to consider even if yours is long gone. |
It's anything but gone; it's just not the sort everyone goes for.
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yummersetter
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thanks Cathryn
our whole building smells of rice pudding, lovely
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Marts
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Received mine, thanks Cathryn
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alice
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Mine arrived today, thank you.
Real custard or ice cream would be nice - if I could just squeeze an egg or two from my lazy, good for nothing, freeloading, backsliding hens.
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woodsprite
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Got mine too, thankyou.
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hamster
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Got mine today, all present and correct, thank you.
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mochyn
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Woohoo! They're here: the postie enjoyed delivering to us this morning!
Haven't decided what to do with them yet.
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wizz
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mine here too... many thanks can't wait to start on the ice cream!
wizz
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Gervase
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I have visions of the entire British postal service being suffused with the scent of vanilla!
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lottie
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| Gervase wrote: | | I have visions of the entire British postal service being suffused with the scent of vanilla! |
I've just posted some on to D.D. in Athens---hope the sniffer dogs don't pick the parcel out
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sally_in_wales
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yum, mine arrived this morning
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SmattyB
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Thanks Cathryn, arrived safe and smell fab.
M
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carolyn
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Thanks Cathryn, mine arrived yesterday - creme brulee and ice cream definitely on the menu
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Cathryn
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All posted out now except for one packet which will go as soon as recipient gets back from her holidays.
And I think I already want more.
So for the greedy, addicted or those who missed it the first time around... Go to the more vanilla thread.
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sharonb
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Mine are here, thanks Cathryn. Wonderfully fresh compared to the overpriced, dried out ones I've been buying!
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alison
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Mine arrived today too, thanks Cathryn
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hedgehogpie
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Wonderful package of scented delight arrived safely this morning. A very heartfelt thanks to you for all the effort & time put in.
you're a star!
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Pilsbury
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got mine as well, thanks for squeezing me in
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Rosemary Judy
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and me - got mine !
too rainy here for ice cream, so brulee it is today !
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lorrayne
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Just to say mine arrived today - it was 46 degrees today and as I walked down the lane to the postbox I could smell them !
Many thanks Cathryn
Lorraine
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ariana
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 08 7:20 pm Post subject:
Baileys Creme Brulee
Serves 4
4 egg yolks
25g castor sugar
1 vanilla pod so .... if you ordered 50 you can make lots!
250ml cream
100ml Baileys
2 tablespoons demerara sugar
Mix egg yolks and castor sugar together in a bowl. Pour cream and Baileys into a saucepan. Scrape seeds from vanilla pod and add to pan. Bring to boil. Whisk into egg mixture. Pour into ramekins. Place in a deep tray and pour hot water into tray until it comes halfway up ramekins. Bake \t 150 degrees C for 20 minutes ish! (check after 15 - may need up to 25) until just set. Should still be wobbly. Cool then chill in fridge. Before serving sprinkle top with demerara sugar and caramelise under a very hot grill or using blowtorch. Enjoy.
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