If your like me and you love to bake, be it sweets like muffins and cupcakes, or super yummy sweets such as cakes, pies and more and notice that the more elaborate the recipe the more the elaborate the flavorings you need.
Now I am know for stocking up on that cheap vanilla extract that smells like alcohol drowned in vanilla bean or what ever imitation flavor they call vanilla is. Then the taste of same said extract is enough to choke a horse because the alcohol is over powering. The other side is that you have a recipe that you make that calls for a tsp. of lemon or orange extract and that is the only time you use it...and realize how much money is wasted on these flavoring concoctions that you have no idea how to pronounce or let alone need a chemistry degree to translate the list of ingredients.
Well look no more. With today's economy being what it is....more and more people and home foodie cooks (yours truly) are going way back into the cookbooks of yore and are now creating our own extracts. So I will give you the information what to do and of course the links to create your extracts.
The first thing to remember is this the higher the quality the better the product. Understand also the amount ratio to use when making any extract. The base start is usually always as follows:
For 8 oz. of said extract you are making you will want to use 1 cup of vodka and 3/4 cup of extract flavoring.
This is where the imagination can run free. Think of all the flavor combos you can come up with. Blueberry lemon extract, or go nuts and do a coffee berry flavoring that would help wake up the senses of the nose so early in the morning.
Please please what ever you do...do not use cheap ingredients. I have learned about this the hard way. But homemade extracts will make awesome Christmas present for those foodies in your life.
Here are the links to recipes.
http://readynutrition.com/resources/8-recipes-for-making-homemade-extracts_22012014/
http://www.commonsensehome.com/how-to-make-homemade-extracts/
http://www.spoonforkbacon.com/2012/12/homemade-extracts/
http://www.babble.com/best-recipes/10-easy-kitchen-extracts-to-make-at-home/
http://www.pinterest.com/lauryspins/make-your-own-extracts/
https://www.mountainroseherbs.com/learn/herbal-extracts
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