I made homemade vanilla extract as gifts for a few people this year. It’s incredibly easy and kind of fun, and it seems to me like it would be a much better extract than store bought. It’s literally just vanilla beans and vodka, whereas bought extract has sugar and water added unnecessarily. I bought some good quality vanilla beans from The Organic Vanilla Bean Company (it’s cheaper to buy good beans here in bulk than small cruddy ones from the grocery store). I got the bottles for $3.99 at The Container Store.
Archive: December 22, 2008