If you want to add flavor to your recipes, food extracts are the way to go. These liquid concoctions take the flavor out of a food and turn it into a usable ingredient. This process, called extraction ...

Have you ever bought butter-flavored popcorn and wondered what, exactly, that butter flavoring is? And what about that butter extract you sometimes see in the baking aisle at the grocery store? First, ...

Pure vanilla extract is made from soaking vanilla beans in water and ethyl alcohol. It tends to have a stronger vanilla flavor than vanilla essence, or artificial vanilla extract. If you’ve made ...