Vanilla Extract Experiment

Guess I never really thought about it, but call me stupid if you want...I had no idea real vanilla extract was made with alcohol. Would explain why I haven't been able to find it in stores here! And good thing I figured it out before I asked my mother-in-law to bring some into the country at Christmas. 

So we've decided to experiment with making our own. Following a fellow Canadian living in Qatar and also some research on the Internet, we've add four vanilla beans to a small bottle of vodka. Should be about 2 months till we have our finished product.

Will keep you posted on its progress and final result. Figure it's a win win situation though, worst case we're left with vanilla infused vodka for drinking if not baking!