Brown Sugar Bourbon Pecan Cookies

[Helene23]

I found a recipe for brown sugar bourbon pecan cookies. It calls for 2tsp vanilla extract & 3tbsp bourbon. I have Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract. Was wondering how much of that to add to the recipe instead of doing both the vanilla extract & bourbon. Do I add 2tsp or 3tbsp?

 

[Norcalbaker59]

I found a recipe for brown sugar bourbon pecan cookies. It calls for 2tsp vanilla extract & 3tbsp bourbon. I have Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract. Was wondering how much of that to add to the recipe instead of doing both the vanilla extract & bourbon. Do I add 2tsp or 3tbsp?

Madagascar Bourbon is the variety of vanilla bean. Réunion, which is part of the Mascarene Islands used to be known as the Bourbon Islands.

Vanilla is native to what is now called Mexico and Guatemala. French colonialists created vanilla production in their colonies after enslaved Réunion horticulturalist Edmond Albius invented the method to pollinate vanilla orchards. Albius was only 12 yrs old when he developed the pollination technique.

Vanilla production by the French enslavers became known by the island name of Bourbon.

But because vanilla orchids are not native to any other regions in the world, all vanilla is genetically Mexican/Guatemalan vanilla.

 

[EdwardGuerra]

To replace both the vanilla extract and bourbon in your recipe, add 2 teaspoons (2 tsp) of pure Madagascar Bourbon vanilla extract.