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10:55 pm
April 7, 2011
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I'm about to use Suzanne's recipe for homemade vanilla extract. I'll be using 8 oz bottles instead of 2 oz bottles in the recipe.
Should I use 4 vanilla beans since I'm quadrupling the recipe?
Thanks for any advice!
MandyD
11:33 pm
February 10, 2009
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I would.
3:06 am
May 10, 2010
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I would too. I usually put anywhere from 8 to 12 beans per cup…The 3 bean was just a little too weak for me. So, after playing around with different batchs, I found 10 beans worked perfectly. This time around, I had extra beans, so 13 beans went into the mix. Smells absolutely devine! Cannot wait to try it. It has been brewing for over 3 months, and I am letting this batch hit the 8 month mark before using it.
9:06 am
May 14, 2005
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I like to double the beans for double-strength vanilla! LOL! There's no such thing as too much vanilla!
11:13 am
May 14, 2011
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Oh I'm so excited about this. I started two huge batchs to give give away as christmas presents to my cooking group. One is a Sam's club size bottle and I put 36 beans in it and the other is a typical size which I put 18 in. I agree with Suzanne, you can never have too much vanilla.
I'm so excited to get to bake soething with it…. next year.
11:13 am
May 10, 2010
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LOL!! I totally agree Suzanne, there is no such thing as too much vanilla :))
12:53 pm
January 31, 2011
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odear, this is making me cry. I love vanilla !
where IS this wonderful recipe !?
and where do you get those vanilla beans ! ?
i remember we got a vanilla bean tied to a christmas present back in the late 60's…mother earth friend of my parents…anyway, I garnered that bean and hung it in my closet for the delicious smell…
omygosh…my mother was not too happy with the super loooong trail of ants it provoked ! bye bye bean…hello to frantic super cleaning and nasty smelling fumigants…
everything natural was kind of an enemy in the suburbs back then …
laur
2:06 pm
October 3, 2010
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Laur,
This is super easy. Buy a big bottle of vodka. Cut a bunch of vanilla beans longways, leaving one end uncut (so it opens like a big "v") and put them in the vodka. Let it sit, shaking every other day or so, for AT LEAST 8 weeks. 3-6 months is even better.
When it's to the strength you like it, strain the extract through a coffee filter and it's ready to use.
Joann
2:08 pm
June 1, 2010
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Suzanne did a couple blogs posts on making homemade vanilla extract.
They’re here:
http://chickensintheroad.com/f…..ract-2-oz/
http://chickensintheroad.com/f…..big-bottle
3:27 pm
April 7, 2011
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Whenever I make vanilla ice cream or anything that I used a vanilla bean for, I just drop the scraped out leftover vanilla bean into my vodka turned vanilla extract bottle…I keep adding to it…and when it starts to get low, i just add more vodka…my bottle was started about 18 mos ago, it's getting darker and darker…it's so good…it's aged vanilla extract!
4:38 pm
January 9, 2011
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I recall seeing a reference to a website that sold vanilla beans for a good price. Anyone remember where that post was??
5:20 pm
December 28, 2008
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May a mod take this opportunity to remind folks that this is exactly the reason we try to keep things on topic AND why we encourage all of us to post links in places that we can all find them later?
If it's not OK for me to plead mod priviledge right now, then never mind. Read about it later.
/lecture and back to regularly scheduled programming… 
5:21 pm
November 15, 2010
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I bought vanilla beans from Arizona Vanilla, and it was incredibly cheap. So much so, that I was worried at first. But they arrived safe and sound, and the beans are still pliable and strong.
HTH
5:23 pm
December 28, 2008
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And there are several resources listed in this topic: http://chickensintheroad.com/f…..8;search=1
5:26 pm
September 11, 2011
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Canner Joann said:
When it's to the strength you like it, strain the extract through a coffee filter and it's ready to use.
Joann
Would you even have to strain it? I wouldn't mind a new extra beans in whatever recipe I'm making!
5:58 pm
December 28, 2008
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Don't really think that it's required that it be strained, but perhaps those who sell it do so because their customers think it's prettier that way. I'm pondering whether to strain or not for gift giving this year. Hmmm.
Decades ago, I bought vanilla in Mexico because it was so much better. It had vanilla sediment in it and I only needed about half what a recipe called for. By the time I used a quart bottle, even less than half was needed!
6:03 pm
October 3, 2010
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No, I don't suppose you'd have to strain it, I just always have. Now, after Pete's comment, I think I'll leave my next batch unstrained.
8:56 pm
December 28, 2008
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OK, so after talking about it however many years it's been, I finally ordered the vanilla beans! Guess it's time to find some vodka and pretty bottles… 
11:20 pm
September 29, 2010
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Has anyone ordered small bottles for gift giving? I have found a few websites but they are expensive. I have been watching garage sales for little liquor bottles and soaking off the labels. But some still have strong odors of the liquor. I have 2 quart jars of vanilla ready for christmas presents.
Thanks
Laura
11:50 pm
January 31, 2011
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I guess i will have to soak off the label on the bottle of vodka …just to be on the safe side with 13, 16, 17, 19, boyz here…oh those boyz…
but i am going to do this thing. ! so excited to even be ordering the vanilla beans !
o yay momma.
thanks for all the encouragement, peeps.
and yep, garage sales are great for little bottles and jars for bath salts and …lip balm etc.
I used to go for end tables and such…now I scavenge the land
there is now an eternal bucket of delabelling going on around here. I love when people look in there and try to figure out what concoction I am coming up with …
Big Daddy Ex is coming tomorrow !!!
laur
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