How To Make Vanilla Extract
Recipe: #21731
November 14, 2015
Categories: 5 Ingredients Or Less, One-Pot Meal, Fat Free, Gluten-Free, Kosher, Low Cholesterol, Low Fat Low Sodium, No Eggs, Non-Dairy, Vegan, Vegetarian, Make it from scratch, more
"My DD gave me a bottle as a present which I recently finished so asked her for the recipe. Yield 1 cup"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (522.4 g)
- Calories 606.7
- Total Fat - 0.7 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.2 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 20.2 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 20.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 8.1 g
- Sugars - 9.8 g
- Protein - 5.5 g
- Calcium - 111 mg
- Iron - 3.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 36.6 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Using kitchen scissors or a sharp paring knife to cut lengthwise down each vanilla bean, splitting them in half, leaving an inch at the end connected.
Step 2
Put vanilla bean in a glass jar or bottle with a tight fitting lid (mason hars work well) and cover completely with the vodka (or gin though the DD used vodka).
Step 3
Give the bottle a good shake every once in a while and store in a dark, cool place for 2 months or longer.
Step 4
Lasts for years and you can keep topping it off with vodka (or gin) once in a while as your use it, just remember to give it a good shake.
Tips
- Glass jar or bottle with tight fitting lid.