This is a recipe from one of our professional snuff makers that you might like to experiment with. This is the first of an occasional series that will be placed in the FAQ section.
If you make it - or adapt it - please let us know how you got on, Snuffster.
An old Rotterdam recipe produce an “Odor” snuff. Take 500 grams of powdered tobacco ground through a coffee grinder and add 22 drops of Bergamot oil, 12 drops of Clove oil and 10 drops of Lemon oil. Mix well, strain through tea sieve, leave overnight. Ready.
A German recipe for Hannover snuff. For 500 grams of powdered tobacco, take 10 grams of fine cut yellow sweet clover mix with 40 ml boiling water and let it cool down. Filter and add to the filtrate 50 ml tap water, 10 grams Ammonium chloride and 5 grams Potash. Mix well with the tobacco leave in a warm place to ferment. After convient fermentation cool down with 50 grams of kitchen salt.
I haven’t tried the Hannover recipe yet, but I hope you have enough to go on.
Kindest regards,
Jaap Bes.