Sqwertz > wrote:

>On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:53:57 -0400, Jim Elbrecht wrote:
>
>> Me too--- In the meantime, my mind has been adequately nudged, and
>> tomorrow I'll be making some oil and some extract. I've got a bag
>> of peppercorns just begging to be used.
>>
>> Canola or olive oil?
>
>Neither. Corn or soy or peanut, IMO.
>
>> Vodka or gin? Those are the questions.
>
>Maybe sake or dry sherry - something you'd using in Asian cooking
>anyway. But definitely not gin.

I think you're right on both counts-- peanut oil and sherry it is.
[though I think I'll do some with vodka just to see if the higher
proof extracts more flavor quicker.]

And now that I found this page, I'll be counting the days . . .
http://looka.gumbopages.com/category...an-peppercorn/

A mixed drink with bourbon, ginger, and szechuan [extract]. . . those
are a few of my favorite things.

Jim