Homemade Vanilla Extract
Nothing adds the depth of flavor to sweet dish quite like homemade vanilla extract! It can be expensive if you bake a lot, but fortunately making your own vanilla extract is super easy!
Ingredients
- Glass bottle with seal cork seal is fine
- Vodka get the best vodka you can afford, but don't go crazy
- vanilla beans
- Funnel
Instructions
- Thoroughly wash bottles.
- Gently score each bean lengthwise. Be careful not to cut in half. Add 3 beans per bottle.
- Pour vodka over beans, leaving at least an inch of air at the top.
Once a week:
Tip bottle back and forth a few times to aerate beans.
Notes
Extract is aged after 3 months, but 6 months is better!
2-3 vanilla beans per quart of vodka will do well to make a deep vanilla extract.