Doing my best for Him: Making vanilla extract

Monday, June 29, 2009

Making vanilla extract

This morning some friends came over and I showed them how to make vanilla extract. I had ordered two pounds of vanilla beans for me and one pound for Joella. Some of the gals made vanilla sugar too. I guess that is something the German people really like.

Joella said that Marius always wanted vanilla sugar and she didn't even know what it was.

Then I showed the ladies how to make lye soap with recycled oil. I hope they enjoyed the time together.

About vanilla beans. I went to walmart and they had a jar with 3 or 4 vanilla beans in it for 8.97. I ordered mine from ebay for 9.99 lb and 5.00 shipping. I got about 160 beans for 15.00. I have enough to make lots of things

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I haven't made vanilla yet. My kids are always with me and my husband doesn't want me to go to the liquor store with them. lol I also haven't found a good source for vanilla beans. Didn't think of ebay.; 30 June, 2009
Anonymous said...: Thanks for visiting me back. Tequilla Vanilla, now that probably would have been awful. LOL

PS. found you through Dehydrate2Store. Love those videos. :); 30 June, 2009

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