I've seen bourbon used, but of course that imparts it's own flavor.
Vanilla Pods
Jun 10, 2004
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I just got some from my local Health Food shop. They're worth their weight in gold. Last time I had some I put them into the old extract container with a touch of vodka. My question - would gin be better? White wine? What do you suggest?
Don't have any of that in the house. I have some sherry, though.
I make my vanilla extract with very good rum! I cut the vanilla pods length-wise, scrape a bit, and then drop them into a fifth of rum. I also write the month and year on the label so I can gauge when to begin another bottle -- it takes a LONG time to get really fine vanilla extract, so I try to keep track, and always begin a new bottle when the current bottle is about 1/4 used. My mother used very fine vodka for her vanilla extract, and for years we had a friendly argument about which was better. (Actually, both are excellent!)
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Try changing good old rum-n-coke to rum-n-vanilla coke. Mmmm.
Cheers Jon
Sounds good to me. Peggy
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