It was over a year ago that I wrote about Making Homemade Vanilla Extract. That post detailed how to make the vanilla extract, but I never got around to mentioning how it turned out. Well, it turned out great. We've been using it for six months or so and I can't tell the difference between the homemade and the store-bought, except that the homemade stuff is 1/10th the price.
This is what it looked like after about six months. Since we have two bottles this size, we took one bottle, ran the contents through a coffee filter (to get the vanilla bits out) and left the second bottle in the dark pantry to keep infusing its vanilla-esque goodness.
A few months later, it was even darker and more chock full of vanilla flavor. Since it's pretty much just alcohol with vanilla beans in it, it will stay good for quite a while. This is a good thing since it might take us another year to get to this bottle.
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