Here are five ways to repurpose leftover vanilla bean pods. 1. Vanilla sugar and salt. The most common use for spent beans is to dry them and bury them in a jar of sugar.

How to Make It, Store It, and Use It in Everything. All you need is 2 to 4 used vanilla pods and about 100–150 grams of granulated sugar. Cut the dried pods into smaller pieces and blend them ...

As the pastry chef at New York’s Café Altro Paradiso and Flora Bar, Natasha Pickowicz knows vanilla is anything but plain—the long, oily pods have a heady, sweet aroma and a complex fruity ...