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You Should Rinse Your Empty Vanilla Extract Bottles With Booze

Vanilla is an important ingredient, a complex ingredient, an expensive ingredient. Even if you’re not a big baker, the vanilla bean and its extract can be used to bring nuance, depth, and the implication of—but not the taste of—sweetness to any food or beverage. In addition to sweets, baked and otherwise, I like to use it in my lemonade, my salad dressings, and—unsurprisingly—my cocktails.