Vanilla Extract Recipe

One ounce of Mexican vanilla bean, two ounces of loaf sugar, eight

ounces of French rose water, twenty-four ounces of alcohol 95 per cent.

Cut up the bean and pound with the sugar in a mortar, sift and pound

again until all is a fine powder. Mix the alcohol and rose water; put

the vanilla in a paper filter, pour over it a little of the liquid at a

time until all is used; filter again if not all is dissolved. Paper

filters may be obtained at any of the large drug stores. The extract may

be darkened by using a little caramel.

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