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Title: Homemade Pepper Vodka
Categories: Five, Chilies, Booze
Yield: 1 Quart

2 c Ground chilies; pick yer
- heat
1 qt Cheap 80º vodka
2 tb (or more) real vanilla
+=OR=+
2 (or more) vanilla beans
2 ts (to 1 tb) liquid smoke and
- almond extract

Fill a wide shouldered bottle (like an empty Knob Creek
bottle) half full of ground pepper and fill it up with
cheapo, store brand vodka. Put it away for about a week
or two shaking the bottle up when ever you think of it
~- longer is better. I suggest not tasting it during
this process it is very, very hot.

Next you want to get rid of all the ground pepper and
keep the dark red liquid. Let the bottle sit still for
a couple of days and the pepper lees will fall to the
bottom.

Carefully decant the dark red liquid to another
container through a paper coffee filter.

Wash your wide shouldered bottle out completely and
pour the dark red liquid back into it.

Next add the whole vanilla extract (not artificial but
the real thing). Also add a liquid smoke and almond
extract - this is to provide more flavor complexity
and "artificial aging" (aged liquor and wine increase
in vanillins with time).

I use this tincture of pepper extract to zip up many a
bottle of cheapo vodka. Just a few tablespoons will do
up a liter. You can taste some and add more tincture to
taste. You will come to understand if it is hot (and
tasty) enough by the color of the final product.

Keep in the freezer and serve straight up in martini
glasses.

From: The Old Cowboy

From: http://www.grouprecipes.com

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