Almond Experiment Part One

Q: Why doesn’t almond extract taste like regular almonds?
A: We (my mom and I) looked at a Yahoo answers type thingy and that gave us a few possible explanations, assuming that the almond extract flavor is the chemical benzaldehyde.
1. That you need alcohol to release the benzaldehyde from the almonds.
2. That you need to heat the almonds in boiling water to release the benzaldehyde.
3. That benzaldehyde is only found in certain types of almonds.

So to test it out I took 5 raw almonds and boiled them in 1 cup water. After they boiled they skins would slip off, and a there was a funny mahogany tinge to the water, (and they both smelled like wet almonds) but neither the water or the almonds tasted any different. I thought that since the water looked different, maybe there was benzaldehyde in it, but it such a small dosage that it was diluted by the water.
To test this I boiled 5 almonds in 1/2 cup of water. That didn't work, either, so I gave up on boiling the almonds, concluding that you can't draw the almond flavor out of regular almonds with hot water.
So then we decided to try peach pits to see if they had that extract flavor. We thought of peach pits because when we froze peaches 2 years ago, we had to take the pit out. and sometimes, the wrinkly outer part of the shell was split open, and inside there was a seed that looked like an almond. We also found out that almonds and peaches are in the same family of nut. So if the peach pits tasted like almonds extract, we would know that you need a certain type of almond to get the benzaldehyde flavor.
When we opened up the peach pits, we found we didn't have to boil them to see if they had the almond flavor, that they didn't have a regular almond taste, but that they did have an extract taste, you could see that when you bit into them. I went online to figure out why regular almonds don't have benzaldehyde.
We found out hat regular almonds (sweet almonds) are actually a genetic mutation of wild almonds, which do have benzaldehyde. When the wild almonds mutated, they lost the benzaldehyde chemical. Anyway... we decided to see if we could make our peach pits into a homemade extract. but when we looked it up on the internet, all the recipies said to soak them in alcohol, and we don't really want to do that. So now we're stuck.

I'll write the rest of it one we finish the experiment.