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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
👍 Glad to know my working notes are helpful to you @fMf Piper! Don't forget FLAKE CUT takes up approximately 2x the Volume of Space as Ribbon Cut - which the Rule-of-Thumb is gauged around - so usually need to go to next jar size UP to hold the same weight in Flake Cut as Ribbon Cut; as shown...- shermnatman
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
You are so correct, Brother @rmbittner ! Every little thing effects everything - Color, Cut, Cure - all that before we even talk about favored casings and/or toppings! - which, thankfully, aren't even used in the winning M.B. White, of Des Moines, Iowa, JAN1946 recipe. It's like a string of...- shermnatman
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***What Are You Smoking, March 2023?***
Thanks, yes and thankfully those little 4" clay Cutty pipes are even less expensive than a cob, so I bought a handful of them just for tasting/sampling/sipping individual tabaks with. I have to say, I love the pureness of the smoke which the clay offers and really is perfect to deeply evaluate...- shermnatman
- Post #563
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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
My selections of C&D and Sutliff Base and Blending Tabaks, and Digital Scale on my Blender's Bench Wide-Mouth is the way to go: NOTE: While the 4x Jar-size to ounces of Tabak guide is usually correct, I forgot to mention two points: 1. When it comes to Loose Flake, Rough, or Large Flake...- shermnatman
- Post #59
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***What Are You Smoking, March 2023?***
Now Smoking: Checking out a taster sample of Sutliff TS-12 Dark Fired Kentucky Burley Ribbons in a little 4" Old German Clay 'Cutty', and absolutely swimming in the joys of Nicotine Heaven while Sipping/Tasting very slowly. Thinking a pinch of this one in a bowl would be a wonderful...- shermnatman
- Post #557
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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
SOME QUICK REFERENCE TIPS: 1. Glass Ball Mason Jars: For the benefit of those who may not already know, and might be buying Bulk Blending components for the first time to create a Blending Tobacco Inventory, and may also end-up creating Small Batch samples of Home Blending recipes beyond the...- shermnatman
- Post #58
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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
Now... Isn't THAT interesting!!! Back from Post #28.... "Again, as you quite rightly said, we are left purely with assumptions. As it see it, we only have 2 Solid Clues: 1. SelBur was mostly Burley - But that doesn't automatically mean that's all that's in there. After all, it is a...- shermnatman
- Post #57
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***What Are You Smoking, March 2023?***
Now Smoking: So this afternoon, your friend and humble narrator - Sherm Natman - received a week-early surprise Birthday Gift from The Amazing Wifey. Seems she overheard me talking on the phone last week with one of the Brothers about "always wanting a Peterson Sherlock Holmes, LeStrade"...- shermnatman
- Post #350
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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
On Baileys: Check. Good citation. On Cav: Agreed. As much as I am lovingly addicted to PA is my Daily Bread smoke, I just can't see Middleton as an OTC Mfg, using the same quality level of leaf which a C&D would use for it's Black Cavendish. As a side note: Once I land on my Sutfill...- shermnatman
- Post #52
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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
Yes, Brother, definitely Granulate, 👍 IF you want the same 'cut' as was most-likely used - as that's how the "Virginia" was supplied in the Middleton Kit - as Bright Virginia Granulated - going with the clue that since M.B. White used in his recipe all the exact generic names - including...- shermnatman
- Post #51
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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
M.B. White's JAN1946. ......... vs .................... C&D Front Porch Estimate by @Ahi Ka 1p Latakia ....................................................... 8p Latakia 8p Burley (total) ...................................,......... 2p Burley and 4p Bright Virgina, Granulated...- shermnatman
- Post #48
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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
@Papamique - Yes! All excellent decisions I would say! The only thing we learned as a fact yesterday was that where these guys who were working out of the MIddleton Home Blending Kit - tell-tale is the call for SelBur, AND, they merely have the description of "Virginia" called for on the...- shermnatman
- Post #46
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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
Nice choice, Brother T'Scopes. For those not already familiar, here is the description of Sutliff 513AAA Burley Bulk Blend, and save everyone the trouble of looking it up: Sutliff 513AAA: Sutliff 1-lb 513AAA Bulk premium pipe tobacco is an expertly blended mixture of #1 Grade American AAA...- shermnatman
- Post #44
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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
Ah... you've got to play the angles, so even when things blow-up in chaos and disaster... as was the case in "The Incident".... somehow... magically... you get "sent to your recliner to smoke your pipe and stay out of the way", so the more "competent" people take on the tasks-at-hand... again...- shermnatman
- Post #33
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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
Sounds interesting but Wifey long, long ago banished me from her Kitchen - her little Fiefdom - nor near any of her Kitchen equipment since "The Incident"...:rolleyes:. Which actually works out in my favor, big time ;) So what results might I expect to see from your described experiment? -...- shermnatman
- Post #31
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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
It could very well be; however, I do not see SelBur described on my tin or in the Middleton Blending book as a light aromatic. My tin and book are from 1935. Where can I find that description? Here's the thing your reasoning makes me consider: If I were a large multi-national OTC company...- shermnatman
- Post #30
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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
Interesting thoughts, Brother @Ahi Ka ! And VERY interesting to ponder: On Cavendished Burley... Very hard to say, and there is no way for us to know at this point. I've asked older tabak people about this for years - not that it means much - and sadly, I've never spoken with anyone who's...- shermnatman
- Post #28
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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
Agreed. We may never know. However, I feel that whatever you go with as your "go to" "Basic Generic Burley Blend" and "Basic Generic Virginia Blend", choose one you really like for these recreation experiments and stick with that as a 'constant'; at least that cuts down one more variable under...- shermnatman
- Post #26
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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
Hahaha! You mean, as in SELLING BURLEY... That's awesome :ROFLMAO: @Grangerous Good to see you getting more active again. - Sherm Natman- shermnatman
- Post #24
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Monthly Home Blending Winning Recipes from the '40's
Exactly! And, that's a creates a big mystery. What's worse is, even the VERY cool book which came with the Middleton Home Blending Kit - See in picture - while otherwise very informative, instructional, and cock-full of recipes, tells no more about the key ingredient and Base Burley Blend -...- shermnatman
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