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There is a quick and cheap way of dealing with the vanilla problem -- make
your own!

Slash 3 vanilla beans and immerse them in 1 pint of vodka/Everclear/alcool
for two weeks. You can use this after two weeks. The colour will not be
dark because of the lack of carmel colouring the manufacturers use, and
will not have any of the trace toxins in commercially-made 'pure' vanilla.
I bake a lot and am generous with vanilla, and find the pint will last me
almost a year.

Sylvia.

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