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Originally Posted by henry  Hi Betty,
great minds must think alike--I just did some vanilla making. I bought 15 Madagascar beans from Penzey's (a friend got them for me while in Kansas City) for about $30. I got a bottle of vodka and brandy (1/5's, I think), and put 7.5 beans in each one. I split them open but did not separate them. I cut the curly ends off and put them in the sugar bowl.
What are you planning to do with your vanilla when it's done? We're planning to give it away as Christmas gifts, with other stuff, but I don't know what kind of bottles to package it in and what to give away with it. Got any ideas? |
I was also planning on giving it for Christmas gifts, I haven't decided yet what I would put it in. Since this website has beans at such a reasonable price I thought I would give some vanilla that I made along with some beans and the recipe for making their own vanilla.
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I have found some really wonderful and unusual containers at the Dollar store for a buck in the past that I have put some of my Christmas creations in.
I have a Birds-eye pepperbush that I've had for years. It has blooms, green and red peppers on it all the time…all year long. I use what I want and let the rest go to seed. There is no way I could ever use them all. When the bush starts to get too big I just take my scissors and I give it a hair cut.
Last year I made some pepper jelly that I gave for Christmas gifts. I found a small container at the Dollar store that was shaped like a frog and held about 1-1/2 cups of jelly. I ran them through the dishwasher to sterilize them…then I used paraffin to seal the container and glue gunned a tiny decretive cellophane packet to the lid of the jelly jar with some seeds in it from the pepper bush. My friends and family loved it and now they have their own pepperbush as well.
