One ounce of Mexican vanilla bean, two ounces of loaf sugar, eight
ounces of French rose water, twenty-four ounces of alcohol 95 per cent.
Cut up the bean and pound with the sugar in a mortar, sift and pound
again until all is a fine powder. Mix the alcohol and rose water; put
the vanilla in a paper filter, pour over it a little of the liquid at a
time until all is used; filter again if not all is dissolved. Paper
filters may be obtained at any of the large drug stores. The extract may
be darkened by using a little caramel.