"Steve Freides" > wrote in message
...
> My wife and I are debating this one. We have a pile of vanilla beans that
> have been soaking in a bottle of Jim Beam (bourbon) for months while
> giving up much of their goodness for my homemade vanilla syrup.
>
> The question is whether or not these beans, pulverized in the food
> processor, could be used that way in homemade vanilla ice cream, or rather
> need to be opened up and the good stuff in the middle removed and the pod
> discarded.
>
> If anyone has actually tried this themselves, that's what I'd really like
> to hear about. Of course, you're welcomed to theorize about it, too.
>

When I have made vanilla IC I scraped the mushy stuff into the mixture. It
was good.