herbgirl said:
subliminal, check out the candymaking thread for some tips on your cough drops. too much tincture and they will be sticky and hard to handle.
http://fuckcombustion.com/viewtopic.php?id=3650
if you are actually looking to make cough drops, like a menthol-y type thing you could try using lorann oils peppermint candy flavoring. it's PUNCHY!
I'm still attempting to perfect my horehound, wild cherry bark and eucalyptus cough drops. they keep coming out too sticky.
and speaking of hot vapor bong, you may want to try adding 1 (and only one) small drop of peppermint essential oil to the water as well. i remember doing this many moons ago and it works well, but proceed with caution as peppermint is very strong and everyone has different tolerance levels for this type of stuff.
Thanks again herbgirl. Just got off the phone with a buddy of mine up north who is heading to humboldt in two weeks. Gonna get a few zips of trim for experimentation. I will take lots of pictures and post. For now, playing with the ABV I've collected in the first month of vaping. Also been sitting on some tincture I made a while back after a harvest. Going to reduce those and try some experimenting with the reduced tincture hash.
That same buddy makes wax and is going to teach me when we get the trimmings. He swears by the stuff. He gave up smoking herb and just smokes wax... I told him combustion is still combustion!
EDIT.... I COOKED LAST NIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH ABV!! YAY!
So, I made Rocky Road CannaFudge. Recipe is super simple. Buy a small container of FLUFF (why didn't I think of a peanut butter and fluff sandwich? I could have made peanut butter fluff firecrackers... next time). I think it is also called Marshmallow Creme. The recipe is on the back! Already recycled the container, so I will post the recipe next time I make them. It calls for 3/4 cup of butter so I used Samuel Jackson's Cannabutter recipe and made a stick and a half of butter with 14g ABV. I added a random gram of some reduced tincture also during the boil proccess to add a little strength. The fudge came out killer. Wife and I woke up still stoned.
I also played around with candies. I made mint sucking candies and learned a VALUABLE LESSON. I bought these awesome mini ice cube trays at Bed BAth & BEyond. They were squares about 10cm by 10cm. Awesome for square sucking candies. What I did not realize is that it was not heat proof. Some of the plastic melted around the cooling candy. My bad! Lesson learned! Buy actual candy molds! Luckily, this was my practice batch made with my weak tincture. I used the Candy recipe that Herb Girl linked above. I also found a fun use for the saucepan after finishing the candy. Add about two cups of water to the sauce pan. Heat the water while stirring. All of the candy caked to the side of the pan will boil into the water, cleaning the pan and creating a delicious and potent tea to drink.
Second batch of candies was made with a High Potency Tincture a friend made me for my wedding. I followed the candy recipe, but this time used heat resistant small circular finger bowls as molds. There were 20 in total. I used 1/4cup tincture per recipe along with 1/2 teaspoon strawberry extract, 1/2 teaspoon banana extract and dash of red food coloring. I want a bit more flavor next time around so I may add 1 teaspoon of each flavor. ANYONE KNOW if that will change texture? I would assume an extra teaspoon of extract could soften the final product? Made a really yummy strawberry banana tea from the saucepan stickies. Lollipops look great. I'm not a good test subject as I am 420 24/7, so I will be having a friend test them out tonight. Will post results later.
Once I get the trim I ordered, I will start my own cooking thread with pictures and videos. THIS IS FUN!
but i didn't have the coffee grinder then either, that may be too fine.
) but I will have a chance to make butter at a friends place in a few weeks so I thought I would use all my ABV (about an ounce) to make a bunch of butter to cook with periodically. All that said is it worth it to water cure it in that case? Also, what is the shelf life on potency of the butter if I store it in my fridge/freezer.
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