{"id":7035,"date":"2023-10-02T15:05:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T20:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/?p=7035"},"modified":"2024-08-05T10:47:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:47:51","slug":"fun-with-cheap-vodka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/7035\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Cheap Vodka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I never realized what you could do with the stuff! Here is my latest projects with it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vanilla extract! You get the beans and use them for stuff like homemade ice cream. It makes those little tiny black specs and tastes really good – especially with my homemade butterscotch sauce. Then you put the used beans in vodka! After a couple weeks it’s vanilla extract – the expensive kind! A tiny bottle costs around $20, and the picture above is 10+ bottles. It tastes wonderful. The fudge Jill made with it had a delicious, distinct flavor. No, there isn’t anymore left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Following on the heels of the extract theme, I decided to pick some mint leaves from our tiny garden and use them the same way. This makes a drink very similar to a mint julep<\/a> – just add some sugar syrup and ice. Jill loves it, and it functions pretty much the same<\/a> as it did in 1952.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the left is my first attempt at limoncello<\/a>. It’s the zest of two lemons. After this picture was taken, I then filtered out the zest and combined with sugar syrup to taste. It’s about the same process as the mint julep, and also tastes amazing. Very lemony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of these projects out of one $18 bottle of vodka!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I never realized what you could do with the stuff! Here is my latest projects with it: Vanilla extract! You get the beans and use them for stuff like homemade ice cream. It makes those little tiny black specs and tastes really good – especially with my homemade butterscotch sauce. Then you put the used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7041,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035\/revisions\/7041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}