{"id":1108,"date":"2018-02-13T16:50:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T00:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2018-02-13T16:50:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T00:50:29","slug":"what-came-before-vanilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/13\/what-came-before-vanilla\/","title":{"rendered":"What came before vanilla?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We usually think of vanilla as ubiquitous in sweets, but it hasn&#8217;t actually been in use for very long. It used to be one of those super expensive tropical extravagances that only the wealthy could afford; the lower class people made do with rosewater (which, ironically, is considered fancier now).\u00a0My mom originally saw an article on this topic on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/rosewater-vanilla-baking-pie?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=41294e3c06-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_20&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_f36db9c480-41294e3c06-65804393&amp;ct=t()&amp;mc_cid=41294e3c06&amp;mc_eid=4377177915\">Atlas Obscura<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike vanilla, you can make rosewater at home! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/5802614-rosemary-gladstar-s-herbal-recipes-for-vibrant-health\">Rosemary Gladstar&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health<\/em><\/a> has instructions on how to make your own. You set up a simple steam distiller. All you need besides that is water and rose petals (forageable!).<\/p>\n<p>Rosewater is used in fancy cosmetics. I don&#8217;t know if it actually does anything, but it makes the product smell nice \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We usually think of vanilla as ubiquitous in sweets, but it hasn&#8217;t actually been in use for very long. It used to be one of those super expensive tropical extravagances that only the wealthy could afford; the lower class people made do with rosewater (which, ironically, is considered fancier now).\u00a0My mom originally saw an article &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/13\/what-came-before-vanilla\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What came before vanilla?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}