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FrozenShellfish
Aug 30, 2004

I make my own vanilla essence: It's like an infusion, just overdone. I hope this counts.

A few years ago I got a little carried away with a credit card and bought half a kilo of vanilla pods. I dumped about half of them went into a huge bottle of vodka, seeds removed and added seperately. Stored in a dark place and shook every few months.

I started using it after a couple of years. It is amazingly good, almost every dessert I make these days is vanilla flavoured. I'm down to about 1/3 a bottle now (I gave about half of it to give away as christmas presents)... My issue is now some of the pods are starting to stick up out of the liquid. Is this a problem? Given the copious amounts of alcohol everywhere I'd be suprised if anything could rot, but I'm paranoid about ruining years of work. Leave it, transfer to a new bottle, or top up with vodka?

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