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Vanilla Flowers Bloom

Vanilla Flowers Bloom Once

This is where every vanilla pod begins. The vanilla orchid opens for a single morning, and if it isn’t pollinated within a few hours it drops and that flower is gone for the year.

Outside of Mexico there’s no native bee to do the job, so every single flower is pollinated by hand, one at a time. From there it takes around nine months on the vine before the green pods are ready to pick, then months more of curing and drying before they become the glossy vanilla pods you split into your custard.

Now you know why real vanilla is really worth it.

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Vanilla Pods Explained

Vanilla Pods Explained

Grade A or Grade B? It comes down to moisture. Grade A vanilla pods are plump and oily, perfect for splitting and scraping into custards, panna cotta and buttercream. Grade B pods are drier and more concentrated, which makes them the go-to for extract, sugars and infusions.

Both are hand selected, then bottled and packed at our Fremantle WA facility. Australian owned, and every order of vanilla pods ships free Australia wide.

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Natural Vanilla Extract,

Natural Vanilla Extract, made the old way

Most extract on the shelf is basically vanilla in a lot of alcohol. Ours isn’t. This one’s made using a traditional low alcohol method, which means the vanilla does the talking instead of the burn.

What’s actually in it: fresh vanilla pods infused at 100g per litre, alcohol at 15%, water, a touch of brown sugar and molasses. That’s it. No preservatives, no colours, no allergens, nothing restricted. The pods are grown without chemicals or artificial fertilisers, the way vanilla’s been grown for a very long time.

That 100g/l works out to 1 fold concentration. So when a recipe says a teaspoon of vanilla, a teaspoon is what you use. No maths.

It’s perfect in pretty much everything. Cakes, custards, ice cream, buttercream, pastry, drinks, chocolate work. Honestly the lower alcohol makes a noticeable difference in anything you’re not baking, because there’s nothing sharp to cook off.

Made at our Fremantle facility in WA. Manufactured, bottled, packaged and distributed here. Australian owned.

If you’ve been settling for supermarket essence, this is the natural vanilla extract worth switching to.

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That First Whiff

That First Whiff of Real Vanilla!

Look at that little face! completely lost in the beautiful, sweet aroma of real Vanilla Beans.

That’s the magic of real vanilla—the fragrance is so rich, warm, and naturally inviting that you can enjoy it even before the baking begins!

One little sniff… and you’re already dreaming of cookies, cakes, ice cream, and sweet vanilla treats. 🍪🍰🍦

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Fresh green vanilla

Fresh green vanilla pods smell of almost nothing.

Grassy, faintly like a bean.

The vanilla you know doesn’t exist yet. It gets created right here. The beans go into woven baskets, get dipped into hot water for a few minutes, then straight under blankets to sweat overnight.

That heat shock stops the pod growing and wakes up the enzymes that convert its stored compounds into vanillin. Only then do the vanilla pods start turning dark, glossy and fragrant.

After that it’s months of sun by day, wrapped by night, then conditioning in boxes until the aroma settles.

We bring those beans back to our facility in Fremantle, WA, where everything is manufactured, bottled, packaged and distributed. It’s a pretty special process.🌱

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Our Ground Vanilla

Our Ground Vanilla Powder isn’t just for desserts; it also works beautifully in savoury food, rounding out acidity and adding warmth without making things sweet.

5 savoury ways to use Natural Vanilla Ground Vanilla Powder:
– Whisk a pinch through a butter sauce for prawns or scallops
– Stir into slow-cooked tomato sauces to soften the acidity
– Add to roasted pumpkin or carrot soup
– Blend into a glaze or marinade for pork
– Whisk into a vinaigrette with olive oil and mustard

Save this for the next time you’re cooking dinner. #naturalvanilla

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