New blending project - recipe heavy.

[Blackhorse]

Certainly not seeking to wrest the title from Ozzie, but I'm in the midst of getting a new batch of blending components in. The are listed below...divided into two piles. What I'm going to try is to find a couple of decent Christmas recipes. 

The two groups represent the components that will be a available to use...NOT the final specific ratios.

The blends I want to work towards will be a melange of Burley's, Red and Yellow VAs,  Cigar Leaf, Turkish and maybe Perique...kind of like Patton's Oriental Dusk, Crossroads & Dark Horse. A very tall order.

Anyway, comments and advice are the whole point here, so chime in if you want. 

Anyone asking me technical type questions will get a good laugh.

Again...the items listed below in the two groups are the components available to include in the blend. Might use three of four...or all.

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Group A (could divide components in half and have two blend subgroups)

Uhle's Burley Mix 
4 oz Blending Smyrna
4 oz Yellow Virginia
4 Oz C&D Chopped Cigar Leaf
2 oz East Carolina Ribbon, 
2 oz Red VA Ribbon, 
2 oz Red VA Cavendish
2 oz Longcut VA
2 oz  C&D Granulated Perique

Group B

Uhle's Burley Mix
4 oz Blending Izmir
4 oz Yellow Virginia
4 oz C&D Chopped Cigar Leaf
2 oz East Carolina Ribbon, 
2 oz Red VA Ribbon, 
2 ozRed VA Cavendish
2 oz Longcut VA
2 oz  C&D Granulated Perique

 

[Ozark Wizard]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but those totals seem to add up to 22 ounces. Pretty big experimental batches there!

More guts than I have!

 

[Blackhorse]

So...here we go. First of all, read the fine print. The list of potential components is a list of Tobaccos AVAILABLE for a blend. I'm not intending to use 22 oz in anything. (Also - the Uhle's Burley might equal a pound available for each A & B). I might end up using half the available tobacco...some specific items not at all. And that after initial trials and testing, which could take up half the available tobaccos on each side.

 

[AJ]

BH you have so many possible combinations. Makes one wonder where to start. I love this sort of experimenting and look forward to hearing the results. Though I've done s good bit of experimenting myself by mixing different blends or by adding Perique or Latakia to a blend, your method of using different varieties is what real tobacconist do. Carry on my friend.

AJ

 

[Ozark Wizard]

Ah, yes, I should have worn my glasses. Sounds like a good time ahead!

Mad scientist time! :cheers:

 

[Blackhorse]

I posted these elsewhere but afterward realized DIY was the proper location.

I titled this thread with a "recipe heavy" description...so here goes...


I've been looking for interesting recipes. I'll post here if I find something of interest.

"Kilted" from our own site is credited with these:

General Longstreet

20 Gram Batch 
Red Virginia 35% 7 grs 
Lemon Virginia 5% 1 grs 
Stoved Virginia 5% 1 grs 
Cigar Leaf 12% 2.4 grs 
Burley 35% 7 grs 
Perique 8% 1.6 grs


Stonewall Jackson


20 Gram Batch 
Cigar Leaf 60% 13 grs 
Black Cavendish 15% 3 grs 
Perique 15% 3 grs 
Stoved Virginia 10% 2 grs





From Dan Pipe in Germany

Good site w various data and links

[url=http://christianpipesmokers.net/viewtopic.php?t=15272]http://christianpipesmokers.net/viewtopic.php?t=15272[/url]

Here's a site with a cake-load of good looking recipes:

[url=http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/your-custom-blend]http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/your-custom-blend[/url]

Sugar & Spice
3 parts red VA
3 parts dark, sugary stoved VA flakes
1 part Perique
Makes for a nice warm and sweet smoke with a delicate whisper of spice.
Jimmy Muraco


Arabica
Red Virginia (stoved) 42%
Turkish 33%
Perique 8%
Black cavendish 17%
Richard Caldwell


HYBRID BLENDS indexes pipe tobacco blends that are based on existing blends that are either mixed together or mixed with raw tobacco components. For example: 2 parts Dunhill My Mixture 965 / 1 part McClelland 5110 / 3 parts Latakia.
2/3 McClelland 5100 (Red VA), 1/3 McClelland 5105 (Stoved VA)
Charles Perry aka [email protected]

2 parts Edgeworth Ready Rubbed and 1/2 part unflavored black cavendish and 1/2 part latakia.
Barry Gershon


Samuel Gawith Brown #4 Rope 2 parts
McClelland #5100 1 part.
Age at least 10 Days
This will reduce the nicotine content of the Samuel Gawith and smooth it out. I cut the rope in 1/4 inch slices and rub it out well.
Greg Tacquard


FOGCUTTER
7 parts Lane HGL
1 part perique
Best if alowed to marry for a month or so.
Bob Rhode


"EMPenzance"
50-70% Penzance, 50-30% Dunhill's Early Morning Pipe.
(proportions may be varied
Tom Clemons


1 part McClelland Frog Morton
1 part Latakia XXX
Ed Angelica


9 parts Vanilla
5 parts Stokkebye Nugget
2 parts Middleton's Maple or similar
John Dubois


1 part Vanilla
1 part Gawith Hoggarth Top Black Cherry
2 parts McClelland 5105
Robert Kennard


1 part McClelland 5100
1 part McClelland 2010
2 parts McClelland 2015
1/4 ounce finely chopped perique
Lee Simmons


2 parts McClelland 2010 rubbed out
1 parts McClelland 2015 rubbed out
1 part Latakia XXX
Lee Simmons


12 parts Lane RLP-6
4 parts Lane BCA
Ron Stucker

3 parts Gawith Hoggarth Bright CR
3 parts Gawith Hoggarth Glenngary
1 part Gawith Hoggarth Rum Flake
Rub out and mix all 3 tobaccos or chop lightly in a food processor or bean grinder
VegasSmokes.com


2 parts Esoterica Penzance
1parts Butera Kingfisher
Paul Calco


5 parts Gawith Lakeland Light
2 parts Gawith Scotch Cut
1 part Latakia XXX
Allow to dehydrate by 20% then rehydrate back to original weight with Cognac. Vacuum sealed or press in jar for a minimum of 2 - 4 weeks.
VegasSmokes.com


ORIENT EXPRESS
9 parts McClelland 2050
1 part latakia
Let the 2050 dehydrate by about 10% before mixing. This is one of my "I get to smoke latakia in the house" blends.
Freddy Vegas


CAJUN CAVENDISH
10 parts McClelland 2050
1 part ground perique
Let the 2050 dehydrate by about 10% before mixing. This is one of my "I get to smoke perique in the house" blends.
Freddy Vegas


3 parts esoterica blackpool
2 parts esoterica kingsbridge
1 part perique
Ed Heztel


2 parts Gawith & Hoggarth Scotch Mixture
4 parts Gawith & Hoggarth Curly Cut Deluxe
1 ounce Gawith & Hoggarth Black Irish X Rope
Cut the rope into very thin disks with a sharp knife of cigar cutter and mix thoroughly.
Karl Teranish


70% G&H Curly Cut
30% Perique
This is a hybrid blend that is delicious. That's a lot of Perique so before making up a large batch make up enough for a couple of bowls first to see if you like it. I pull apart the curlies and add the Perique and then press it overnight in a ziplock bag under a pile of books.
Bernie


CAJUN QUEEN
50g Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture
5g pure Perique (can adjust to taste)
Store in a mason jar and keep sealed for as long as you can stand it...I wait six months, and the result is delicious.
Sean Chercover


1 part Gawith & Hoggarth Dark Flake
1 part Amphora Regular
Rub the flake, mix and press. The mixture is ready to smoke.
Riccardo Astengo


1 part Samuel Gawith Cob Flake (1792)
2 part Red Virginia (blending tobacco)
Control moisture grade, mix, press and stock for some days.
Riccardo Astengo


1 part Samuel Gawith - Medium Virginia Flake
1 part Samuel Gawith Brown Flake
1 part Samuel Gawith Full Virginia Flake
1 part Samuel Gawith Cob Flake
1/4 part Syrian Latakia
1/4 part Louisiana Perique
Rub the flakes, mix and press. Ready in a few days
Riccardo Astengo


Scotts Half N' Half
50% sliced Gawith Hoggarth Black Cherry Rope
50% chopped Premium Cigar leaf (Bolivar Fuerte)
Scott D.


Three Suns (substitute for the old Three Nuns)
4oz Gawith Hoggarth Curly Cut
5% Long Cut Perique
Let ingredients marry for at least two weeks.
Scott D.


Sugar & Spice
3 parts red VA
3 parts dark, sugary stoved VA flakes
1 part Perique
Makes for a nice warm and sweet smoke with a delicate whisper of spice.
Jimmy Muraco


"Blizzard Blend" (made during snowstorm in Feb. '03)
3 parts Mac Baren Scottish Mixture
2 parts Mac Baren Navy Flake (rubbed)
1 part oriental
Jimmy Muraco


50% Latakia
50% Mixture # 79
This blend is for the man who requires complete privacy as I don't think anyone will want to be around you after you light this mixture up
LELAND


8 oz BCA (Lane) Black Cav
6 oz HS-1 (Lane) Captain Black gold
2 oz 1-Q (lane) Captain Black Blue


Old Mule
Lake Country Black & Tan
Equal parts Gawith & Hoggarth Brown Irish Twist and Black Irish Twist, cut into ribbons and pressed.
It's still very powerful but the combination of the two seems to accentuate the best flavors of each and compensate for the flaws of each.
Bryan Maloney


1 large tin 3 Nuns (not rubbed)
1 small tin Erinmore Flake (rubbed)
1 standard tin Comoy #1 (or any English blend)
1 standard tin Connemara (you can skip this)
3 packages of Mixture #79
2 packages of Kentucky Club non-aromatic
1 package of Rum & Maple
Marry for about a week.
Lovely aroma, great taste, does not smoke hot.
Too bad the ingredients are so hard to obtain.
Jameson Campaigne


Mcfinster Twist
50% McBaren Golden Ambrosia
40% Gawith Hoggarth Black Irish Twist
Sacha Finsterbusch


Scanavini's Mixture
50% Stoved Virginia
25% Latakia
25% Oriental
12% Perique
Very strong, a bit punchy
Sacha Finsterbusch


2 parts Orlik Golden Sliced
1 part Cornell & Diehl Billy Budd
Rick Browning


Summertime corn cob smoke
50% Admiral's Choice Gold Burley (from CVS)
50% 5100 Red Cake
Mix well, let it marry for a few days. This is a good smoke for yard work in a corn cob pipe.
Stephen Williamson


Elmos Reserve
50% Dunhills Nightcap
50% McClellands Bristish Woods
Art Harris


50% Walnut
50% Finck Cigar Company Istanbul
Mix and let sit for a few weeks. If too dry, spray a little water on mix before storing. Walnut while mild, is a bit light in the English department, and Istanbul, needs something to fill out it's one dimension. Vary the proportions to taste.
Al B.


1 part Cornell &Deihl STRATHSPEY
1 part Cornell &Deihl BYZANTIUM
Two fine blends in themselves. The resulting blend is soft and smooth from first light to the bottom of the bowl.
Gary W.


14oz Balkin Sassini
3oz Perique
3oz Syrian Latakia
David Napierkowski


1 part Lane IQ
1 part Prince Albert
Let rest for a week or two.
James H.


2 parts Lane tk-6
2 parts McClelland VBC
1 part Dark Chocolate Cavendish
Shawn K.


1 part perique
2 parts Red Carolina
3 parts lighter VA. (I like Ashton's Brindle for this but have used McClellend's 2010)
2 parts matured bright. (if for nothing else use Stokkbye luxery Curly cut.)
1 part Black Cavendish. (if using Curly Cut do not add extra Cavendish)
2 part Esoterica's Stoneheaven (be carefull with this it is a difficult rub.)
Steam and Stove in prefered fashion. Store for 6 to 8 months.


Blackstone Fog
12oz. Field & Stream
4oz Lane Limited BCA
Tedd Barrett


Cajun Half and Half
One pound of Admiral's Choice Golden Burley (from CVS)
One pound of McClelland's 2010 Classic Virginia
3 to 4 ounces straight Perique
The nutty taste of the burley with the sweetness of the virginia are enhanced and kicked up a notch by the addition of the perique. I find this to be an all day smoke. Almost a poor man's Escudo.
Steve Williamson


50% Cornell & Diehl Star of the East
50% Cornell & Diehl Bayou Night
The Star of the East is heavy on Latakia and the Bayou Night is heavy on Perique. The rest is Virginias, Turkish, and some unflavored black cavendish. As with all C%D tobaks - they need to age at least 6 months after purchase.
Fred Langer


50% Esoterica Penzance
50% Esoterica Margate
This is delicious blended or to make it interesting, alternate layers of each in the bowl.
Fred Langer


Black Magic
1 Part GH Sliced Black Irish Twist
1 Part GH Balkan Blend
David Cazden

 

[Blackhorse]

Now THIS is interesting...check it out Ozzie (you're the only one I know growing your own).

I don't think I've ever seen a "sauce" recipe before!


<h2 class="post-content">Yayladag Pipe Tobacco (blend and recipe)</h2>

This is the most wanted commercial pipe tobacco in Turkey and generally can not be found consistently in markets. Manufacturer may have some problems about distribution. 

This blend contains Turkish tobaccos and a fire-cured tobacco (strain unknown).

Blend contains,

Strain ----------%
Yayladag -------40
Bitlis -----------24
Izmir -----------12
Fire-cured ------24

For casing/saucing,

Materials--------------------%
Diethylene glycol--------------2
Honey------------------------1
Pekmez *---------------------1
Sodium Nitrate---------------0.5
Sodium benzoate--------------1
Water------------------------ 6

*Pekmez is boiled grape juice. It's a medium viscous fluid not viscouse as honey resembles molasses. See the pic below.

BTW, you can find pekmez in some stores especially if you have a Turkish neighborhood. There are a lot of pekmez types like grape, carob, mulberry, etc.

Saucing mixture should be applied by spraying on the leaves. Blend should rest for a day to absorb the mixture.


For flavoring,

Materials-------------%
Maple syrup-----------0.15
Rum------------------0.10
Alcohol---------------0.65
Water----------------0.225

After spraying this mixture tobaccos should rest for a day again to absorb the fragrance. 

Blend should be 14-15% humid for shredding.

 

[DoverPipes]

Pekmez is what is found in Shisha (Hookah) tobacco........
Those can be pretty sticky!

 

[Blackhorse]

I think it's like concentrated fruit essence. Here they dilute it and spray it on the leaf prior to cutting. I know all Burley and maybe all tobacco is treated in much the same way, by one kind of sauce or other. This recipe is one for some Turkish blend. Cigar Leaf prep is much the same.

If you buy blending tobaccos or already blended stuff, this has already been done. I'm sure many here know much more than I do about processing the leaf.

 

[Ozark Wizard]

Well, there you go...... That sounds like an interesting blend and treatment. I'm not sure of what's about some of the additives, I'll check this out!

Great thread/post! Most excellent actually. Good show!

 

[Blackhorse]

So, the thing that I really found fun was the blends using Gawith Lakelands. Now that never really occurred to me. Brilliant.

Got some of the blender's in today. Great aromas.

 

[Blackhorse]

So just to get on the path here's a couple.

Storm Over Smyrna

10 parts Storm Front
2 parts blending Smyrna

Storm Over Izmir

10 parts Storm Front
2 parts blending Izmir

Interesting!

 

[huffelpuff]

BH if you're interested I can post the recipe for the old Pall Mall casing. It's quite interesting to say the least.

Jim

 

[Blackhorse]

Go ahead, sure. I won't be likely to use it, but it will add to the library.

 

[huffelpuff]

Ok. Here it is for posterity and all that.

Pall Mall casing sauce. 9 drum yield

Cocoa. 185.4 lbs
Licorice Granuals. 137.7 lbs
Chocolate. 83.1 lbs
Invert Sugar Syrup. 1,986.0 lbs
Corn Syrup. 720.0 lbs
Propylene Glycol. 343.5 lbs
Glycerin. 388.0 lbs
Sodium Benzoate. 5.25lbs
Water. 300 lbs

Add cocoa to 300 lbs of water to make slurry. Add licorice granuals and chocolate and cook 10-15 minutes to dissolve. Then add remaining ingredients in order given. Bring to cooking temperature of 180 degrees F.

Hot liquid is to be divided equally into 9 open lined, metal, tight head drums. The net weight is to be adjusted to 526.1 pounds with hot water.

After adjusting weight the drums should be sealed tightly and labeled.

 

[Ozark Wizard]

That recipe must treat a LOT of tobacco!!

 

[huffelpuff]

Other casing sauce recipes I have are as follows.

Simple cocoa casing

1 tablespoon cocoa powder
8 oz purified water
1/4 teaspoon glycerin
1 teaspoon honey

You can substitute 8 oz very strong coffee plus 1 tablespoon chocolate syrup for the water in the above recipe.



Choco, maple, honey, rum casing

1/2 square bakers chocolate
1 teaspoon maple syrup
1 1/2 teaspoon honey
1 oz rum of your preference
1 oz water

Heat liquids on stove. Grate chocolate into hot liquid. Filter. Soak leaves in casing for 24 hours at room temperature. Dry in oven preheated to 350 degrees turn off oven before you put tobacco in.


Japan Tobacco International casing sauce
For Export A Full Flavor Cigarettes. Treats 1 kg tobacco 30% burley 70% Virginia


22g glycerin
5g sodium carbonate
3g potassium sorbate
22g invert Syrup

Put all into a 500 ml jar and shake to combine. Add hot water to obtain 500 ml. Mix all into 1 kg tobacco and put into storage tote. Should be very moist to wet. Cover and heat. Float covered tub in hot water in bathtub. Refresh hot water every 2 hours and thoroughly mix the tobacco each time to ensure even heating of product. Refresh water in tub 3 times. 6 hours will give the carbonate time to work on freebasing the nicotine content of the tobacco. Dry in oven in batches. 1 inch layer of tobacco oven set to 120 degrees door left ajar, heat one hour or until top layer is crispy turn over and repeat. At this point put into new storage tub and add Turkish to your preference.

 

[huffelpuff]

That recipe must treat a LOT of tobacco!!

If I remember correctly each drum was for a 1000kg of tobacco or something of that magnitude. The General rule is 10 ml or 2 teaspoons of casing treats 1 pound of tobacco.

 

[huffelpuff]

Some general pipe blends to play with

40% Va bright
20% aromatic Turkish
25% Latakia
10% perique
5% black cavendish


30% air cured Va
30% oriental
35% Latakia
5% Black cavendish or dark air cured



20% light burley
20% dark burley
30% Turkish
30% Latakia



Balkan Sobrane clones

White
6 parts Latakia
2 parts Xanthi
4 parts lemon Va
3 parts red va
1 part dark air cured

Beige
6 parts Latakia
2 parts Prelip
4 parts lemon Va
3 parts red va
1 part dark air cured


Capstain Flake Mock

60% red va
30% bright va
10% perique

Needs 2 weeks in pressure mold at 113degrees then slice



I take no credit for any of the above blends just passing on things I've found that sound good.

 

[Ozark Wizard]

1 tablespoon cocoa powder
8 oz purified water
1/4 teaspoon glycerin
1 teaspoon honey

This one is very similar to how I treat my Burley. Though more often I would use molasses in lieu of the cocoa powder and honey. The cocoa is a pretty popular component for others, I found it not to my tastes. I like using honey though.

Good info guys!:cheers: