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Never Be without great vanilla again! Big hint: You can purchase "extract" quality vanilla beans on line very inexpensively. We bought 10 Madagascar grade B beans for about $5 including shipping. Grade B beans are dryer and perfect to make extract but not good for other cooking so they are pretty cheap!
Cheap vodka, enough to fill your 12-16 oz bottle
Spent vanilla beans, at least 4-6 grade B extract beans
1. Fill a mason jar or bottle with vodka. After you use the seeds of a vanilla bean in a recipe, rinse off the vanilla bean and put it in the vodka. You’ll need at least 3 vanilla beans in there for at least 3 weeks to get a good extract going, but it’s fine to use more beans, too. Your extract is ready when it is a lovely brown color and it smells like vanilla.
2. Either pour the extract it into a new bottle and start over or keep topping off the working bottle with vodka and keep shoving more vanilla beans into the bottle. As long as you don’t let it get too empty, you can keep using the extract indefinitely even as you continue to top it off.
See more at http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Vanilla-Extract-395869
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 BrianDonnaMcBride
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Comments
So easy and superior taste. Make this in a fancy glass bottle for a great gift to foodie friend!