# vanilla flavor in powder form?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-flavor-in-powder-form/150081
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 21, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-flavor-in-powder-form/150081 "2003-01-21T22:59:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-flavor-in-powder-form/150081/1 "2003-01-21T22:59:00Z")
I need to add vanilla flavoring to something but it has to be a dry ingredient. Anyone know of anything?
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### Author:  [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-flavor-in-powder-form/150081/2 "2003-01-21T23:02:41Z")
You can buy vanilla as sticks, and you can scrape out the vanilla using a knife. It’s not exactly “dried” but it may suit your purpose.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-flavor-in-powder-form/150081/3 "2003-01-21T23:06:36Z")
No, it needs to be **dry** as in… storable indefinitely in powdered form at room temperature.
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### Author:  [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-flavor-in-powder-form/150081/4 "2003-01-21T23:13:16Z")
[here ya go](http://ww2.kingarthurflour.com/cgibin/htmlos.cgi/01141.5.577526257052037805)
also, I have purchased a brand called Dr Otikers (sp?) at stores that sell german baking supplies.
Vanilla powder is always used in german cooking. My friend’s mom had never heard of a liquid version of it.
The german stuff comes in individual packets.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-flavor-in-powder-form/150081/5 "2003-01-21T23:33:15Z")
Woohoo! Thanks! I knew it had to be out there, just hadn’t ever seen it!
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vanilla-flavor-in-powder-form/150081/6 "2003-01-22T00:45:20Z")
You can make your own vanilla sugar very easily.
Buy a couple of vanilla beans and place in a covered container of fine white sugar. The sugar will pick up the flavour in a week or two. As you use sugar replace the ammount taken out with new sugar. This lasts forever, I am still using the same beans I put in over two years ago, and the flavour hasn’t noticeably deteriorated.
Cheers, Keithy
b.t.w. Opal, tag you are it