Sheldon wrote:
> cathy wrote:
> > Is there such a thing as clear pure vanilla extract? I googled it and
> > found several but they all seem to be imitation or artifical vanilla
> > extract, not the real thing.
> >
> > Does it exist?
>
> I'd be very suspicious.
>
> And it wouldn't be imitation/artificial extract... it would be
> imitation/artificial flavoring.
>
> In dishes where vanilla gets heated modern imitation vanilla flavoring
> can't be differentiated from real vanilla extract, not by humans...
> anyone who claims they can detect the difference is lying. Save your
> real vanilla extract for things like whipped cream/ice cream, but the
> majority can't tell anyway, so if you have more dollars than brain
> cells go for it. For anything you cook/bake use fake.
>
You are absolutely correct, Shel, and the fact that humans can't tell
the difference has been pointed out many times on TV and in print.

I like to keep the clear fake stuff around because it makes a great
mosquito and gnat repellant in the summer and it doesn't show when I
pat it on my face or on my arms, like the colored stuff does.

N.