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Home-made vanilla and lemon extracts; with photos!
Topic Started: May 31 2009, 12:05 PM (215 Views)
Kmelion
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Yishuvnik
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1 liter vodka, 4-5 vanilla beans. 7 weeks in a dark closet. I split and scraped the beans and added the scrapings to the vodka along with the beans. We decanted some of it after 7 weeks because I had just run out of the last batch. So about half is still in the dark closet with the beans. The color is a gorgeous honey-brown and the scent of vanilla is wonderful. And the taste.... whoa...

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Empty the bottle of vodka into a bowl. Pour the juice of at least 5 lemons into the bottle along with strips of zest from at least 4 lemons. Fill the bottle with vodka and let it sit on a shelf for at least 4 weeks. I let it sit for almost 7 weeks before straining. The smell of lemony citrus was fantastic and the taste was a great balance of lemon and alcohol.
Edited by Kmelion, May 31 2009, 01:12 PM.
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npl
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That looks awesome! Sounds like a lot of work, though.
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Kmelion
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Not a lot of work at all... and so much less expensive than buying pure extracts in the store (if you can find them).
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chavamom
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I go through a lot of lemon extract - I make a cake that uses 1 T. for each one. I'm going to have to try that one.
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realeez
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Wow!
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hallie_ari_mom
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Looks incredible. I will make the vanilla one, bc I go through that like it's water.
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Zeesachaya
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Excellent - thanks for sharing!
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