After lurking for a while and finding the recipe I decided to give making my own snuff a try. I didn’t know whether to put this with the other recipe thread or not, hope that’s not a problem. Anyway here are my notes: Snuff Experiment #1 1/18/14 1/4 cup tobacco flour 2 tsp herb water (2 tonka beans in hot water soaked overnight) ~1/8 tsp sodium carbonate ~1/8 tsp cream of tartar 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt Adapted from Hanover recipe adapted by @Juxtaposer – Snuff millers snuff recipe Grind dry tobacco into fine/medium flour. Make herb tea using ingredient with coumarin (tonka beans in this case). Mix alkalizers in tea to dissolve. Mix tea with flour thoroughly and allow to ferment at warm temperature (~100* F) for around 12 hours. Allow another 12 hours before opening. Mix in salt (dry or moist as needed). Allow to rest 7 days. Ground American Spirit shake and sifted. Nice texture after basic grind with mortar and pestle. Used magic bullet blender to finish grinding. Ended up using 3.1/2 tsp tea to moisten flour. 11:45 AM Wrapped in towel and heating pad to keep warm enough to ferment. 9:36 PM Opened jar anyway and detected no ammonia smell. Aroma from tonka bean tea is quite strong. Temperature control is nearly impossible as heating pad reached temperatures of up to 140* F. Decided to add essential oils to achieve citrusy/floral notes. Used 2 drops bergamot 1 drop patchouli. 1/19/14 12:21 PM Added 1/2 tsp kosher salt ground fine in mortar and pestle. Immediate change in scent is noted. Still no obvious fermentation. 1/22/14 Took a small spoonful and let dry. Some clumping of the tobacco flour has occurred so I re ground in the mortar and pestle. After it was sufficiently dry and finely ground I gave took a small pinch. First thing I notice is that unlike the scotch snuff I’ve been using this has a coarser feel despite it looking just as fine. It has a very nice sweet flavor that I have trouble describing, the oils I used have blended very nicely with the vanilla like flavor of the tonka beans. I imagine it to be quite like SP snuff, though I’ve never had any myself; I’m going by descriptions I’ve read. It probably needs to be allowed to breathe a bit to reduce the potency of the aroma. I haven’t actually taken my usual amount so I’m not sure how the nicotine content turned out but the little bit I had seems to possess a nice amount. Update! 1/24/14 9:00 PM There’s finally ammonia! Was not obvious until snuffed. It burns! Essential oils must have masked the smell. Going to wait several days and try a very small amount. Should probably wait more than a day to add scenting oils. That’s all for now but I’ll update as I write more notes.
I’ve started grinding more tobacco for experiment #2. My wife is the manager of a health food store and she has some menthol crystals in stock so I think I know what’s coming next. Does anyone have any recommendations on using the menthol crystals for flavoring a snuff? I believe I’ve read somewhere that it should be used at .6% of tobacco weight, so I assume I just dissolve them in 2-3 tsp of water then use that to moisten the flour. Are there any casings or sauces that would work well with the menthol?
im gonna sub this, i have menthol crystals too.
I need a recipe to make a snuff with high ammonia concentrate, I’m using raw tobacco leaves that I buy from local farmers. Here is my method. 100g of finely crushed and screened tobacco flour. 2g of slaked lime. 2g of salt. 100ml of distilled water. I mix the slaked lime and salt with water And ad the mixture to my tobacco powder. I get the ammonia smell with my method but it disappears almost instantly. What am I doing wrong, can anyone explain the procedure, the ratio of ingredients, how to cure the snuff and preserve the ammonia?