 Vanilla
The way we did it at the restaurant I use to work for was to take the vanilla bean pod after it was used for what ever recipe and the beans were removed is just put it in a bottle of vodka. Everytime we made a recipe with vanilla bean in it we would just put the pod in the vodka and eventualy the vodka would turn to vanilla. Then just remove the pods from the vodka. It was just a good way to get use out of the empty pods |