Camphor and damp earth, faintly minty.
Cool and woody, and more at home in savory cooking than in anything sweet. It works where star anise and ginger already are — braises, five-spice, a soy-based glaze.
In the kitchen
Survives infusion
Infusion is kind to these — every method on this site tops out at 200 °F, below where they go. Decarb is harder on them and a 375 °F bake harder still. They hold up best in something cooked gently or not at all: a no-bake, a sauce finished off the heat, a chilled dessert.
Pure borneol boils at 213 °C / 415 °F. That figure is the isolated compound at atmospheric pressure, not a threshold in a pan. Dissolved in fat it leaves gradually and the butter holds some of it the whole way — which is why the band above is the number to plan around and this one is only a bearing.
The same compound is in camphor, rosemary, mint and ginger — which is the short version of why these pairings work. You are not matching a flavor to the cannabis, you are adding more of something the flower already tastes of.
Cupcakes solve the portioning problem a layer cake creates, and putting the infusion in the cream cheese frosting solves the heat problem — frosting is never cooked, so nothing is lost on the way.
Contains ground ginger
Written for
5 mgper cupcake
12 cupcakes · 55 min
A spoonable chili oil for eggs, noodles and rice. Made once, it doses a dozen meals a teaspoon at a time.
Contains soy sauce
Written for
2.5 mgper teaspoon
24 teaspoons · 35 min
Warm spiced milk with turmeric and black pepper. Made in one pan in five minutes, with nothing hot enough to hurt the infusion.
Contains ground ginger
Written for
5 mgper mug
2 mugs · 8 min
Roasted first, glazed with infused honey after they cool. Infused honey is less efficient than fat, so this leans on the glaze going on cold rather than being baked.
Contains chopped rosemary
Written for
2.5 mgper serving
12 servings · 35 min
Spices simmered in water, milk added after, infused fat whisked in off the heat. Nothing in it ever boils once the dose is in.
Contains fresh ginger
Written for
5 mgper mug
2 mugs · 17 min
Spiced cider warmed on the stove, with the infusion whisked in off the heat. A pot that serves a group, portioned into mugs rather than ladled freely.
Contains star anise
Written for
5 mgper mug
6 mugs · 30 min
From StrainTrackr. Each of these breeders named borneol on their own product page — a claim about their cultivar, not a lab result. Most strains have no terpenes published at all, so this is a sample of what is documented rather than a ranking of what is strongest.
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