Instructions: Purchase vanilla beans from health food store. With knife, make 1-inch slits down vanilla bean on all sides. Place beans in vodka. Mark bottle with date. Wait 3 months and you have pure vanilla extract. Leave beans in vodka. Keeps forever.

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