Damp fir and camphor.
Cold-weather cooking. It suits game, roots and cabbage more than it suits dessert, and the nutmeg-and-juniper end of the spice rack meets it properly.
In the kitchen
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These are the lightest compounds in the plant and they leave first. Decarbing costs you most of them before the fat is even involved — the coolest step on the schedule is 200 °F, and that is already well past where they start moving. If this is the aroma you want, it has to come back into the dish from somewhere else: fresh zest, fresh herbs, a spirit, stirred in off the heat.
Pure camphene boils at 159 °C / 318 °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 fir, nutmeg, ginger and valerian — 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.
Custard pie, which means eggs set it and eggs will crack it if it goes past done. Pull it while the middle still wobbles and let carryover finish the job on the counter.
Contains ground ginger, ground nutmeg
Written for
5 mgper slice
8 slices · 85 min
Oat streusel over apples firm enough to hold their shape — Granny Smith or Braeburn, not a soft eating apple that collapses into sauce. Baked in ramekins, which takes the guesswork out of serving it.
Contains firm tart apples
Written for
5 mgper ramekin
8 ramekins · 60 min
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
Butter, parmesan and starchy pasta water beaten into a sauce that clings to the noodles. Heat is the enemy: too hot and the emulsion splits into grease and grit, stranding most of the dose in the oil.
Contains grated nutmeg
Written for
5 mgper plate
4 plates · 22 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
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
From StrainTrackr. Each of these breeders named camphene 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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