Homemade Vanilla Extract

A couple of friends and I got together yesterday with some bottles of booze and had a great time. We sloshed a little vodka, rum, and bourbon into bottles with vanilla beans and made our own Vanilla Extract.

My hubby the auction freak (buys everything at an auction that is a good deal) had several small bottles that we used.

The house was alive with the smell of Vanilla. It reminded me of baking sugar cookies and made me want to bake a batch.

Viki and Denise would do the filling of the bottles and poke the stem of the vanilla into the jar.

We had a lot of smiles, a bit of the spirits leftover and lots of Holiday unique gift prepared.