Regret the Error

From the Daily Press of Newport News, Virginia:

A correction in this column
Thursday about a June 14 Taste section recipe for French coconut pie
incorrectly suggested that the recipe called for a pint of vodka. The
accompanying recipe for homemade vanilla extract uses the vodka. The
pie recipe then calls for one tablespoon of extract. Here’s the
corrected recipe for vanilla extract, adapted from Lacy Smith’s "Sugar
Daddy’s Treats": Drop one vanilla bean in a one-pint bottle of vodka,
and six months later, you have vanilla extract.

The paper’s reader feedback column also contained this exchange:

[Reader] …I’ve been reading the corrections in Friday’s DP. I think it is
interesting that the correction about the French coconut pie recipe
ends by saying to use a pint of vodka among the ingredients. While I
like the concept, I think a pint is a bit too much for a French coconut
pie. What do you think?

Editor: I think rum goes better with
coconut pie. No, really, the vodka wasn’t supposed to be part of the
pie recipe. It was included in a second recipe for how to make vanilla
extract. See the correction on this page.

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