General Call for Tested Pipe Casing Recipes

[deluxestogie]

I'm in the throes of completing a detailed wiki for WLT. One area in which I have very little experience is in recipes for pipe tobacco casings. I know that there are a bunch of those sprinkled throughout this forum, but they are nearly impossible to locate.

If you have a pipe tobacco casing recipe that you have tested and were more than happy with, please post it in this thread--over the next week (THREAD WILL CLOSE 10 SEP 2019). List as much pertinent detail as possible (amounts, of both casing ingredients and the intended quantity of tobacco to which it will be applied), method of application, rest periods or heat treatments, etc.

If I include it in the wiki, I will credit it to your user name, unless you provide me, by PM, your actual name that you would prefer as a credit. Or you can request that it be anonymous.

Thanks,
Bob

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Two recommendations for casing while following the pressure cooker cavendish procedure.

1. Glycerin at a 1:20 to 1:40 ratio by weight, glycerin to tobacco before pressure cooking. This is not a precise procedure to begin with, but for the sake of making it simple, this involves about 20 parts tobacco, 19 parts water, and 1 part glycerin. Then pressure cooked in a sealed jar at 15lbs for 3 to 4 hours.

This done to a flue cured bright tobacco, dried, and aged a month, makes a sweet but tobacco flavored black cavendish.


2. Follow the black cavendish procedure (link above) but use vanilla extract.

This means 20 parts tobacco, 10 to 15 parts water, 5 to 10 parts vanilla extract.
It must be an alcohol based vanilla extract.

 

[deluxestogie]

Last call.

 

[CobGuy]

I'm surprised there aren't more, Bob.

Toasted Burley:

1. Combine 1 Tbsp Hershey's syrup (may also use molasses if preferred or a combo of both) per 1 ounce of water (distilled preferred but not necessary)
2. Spread your Burley out onto a cookie sheet and preheat oven to approximately 180°F.
3. Toast the tobacco until almost dry (not crispy) and remove from the oven.
4. Spritz the Burley with casing solution, mixing well, until covered but not dripping wet.
5. Place the tobacco back in the oven and dry again ... repeat these steps 3 or 4 times.

"Coffee House" Red FCV:

1. Combine 1 Tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar (Bragg's) per 1 ounce water (distilled preferred but not necessary) and add 1/8 tsp cinnamon.
2. Spritz the Red FCV leaf while in low case until it's to high case.
3. Allow the leaf to dry back down to medium case and make a stack.
4. Press the stack into a plug using your home-press of choice for at least 3 days.
5. Slice into flakes and jar for at least 3 months ... 9-12 months is better.

As for any credits, you can use a combo like this: Cobguy / Darin

Thanks!

 

[FmGrowit]

I'm surprised there aren't more, Bob.

So am I.

If anyone has a casing recipe, please post it here.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Roll tobacco into a rope. Pack into a jar. Fill jar with dried elderberries or dried currents. Put some water in. Bake at 220°F for a couple hours.

 

[Charly]

I'm surprised there aren't more, Bob.

I fully agree.

I would like to add a recipe, but every time I tried to case my tobacco, I ended with something less good than the raw tobacco I begun with... (I have never really enjoyed cased tobaccos).

 

[deluxestogie]

Thank you.

Bob