Green apple skin, faintly woody.
Green apple is the whole story, and it is the skin rather than the flesh. Caramel, sage and pork are the classic partners for that flavor and they work here for the same reason.
In the kitchen
Cooks through
The heaviest aromatics in cannabis, and the ones that behave like ordinary kitchen spices — black pepper and cloves carry the same compounds and neither is ruined by an oven. What you smell in the jar is close to what you taste in the finished thing, which cuts both ways: it is why the grassiness people complain about is usually this half of the profile.
The same compound is in green apple, hops and sandalwood — 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.
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 apple cider
Written for
5 mgper mug
6 mugs · 30 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
Muffin-method batter mixed by hand in one bowl, with bananas dark enough that the skins are mostly black. A high opening oven temperature is what gives the tops their dome.
Contains walnuts
Written for
5 mgper muffin
12 muffins · 35 min
Made in a food processor, no heat at all. Keeps a week in the fridge and doses pasta, eggs or bread by the spoonful.
Contains pine nuts or walnuts
Written for
2.5 mgper serving
8 servings · 10 min
Buttermilk biscuits under a peppery milk gravy built on sausage drippings. The gravy thickens on the stove with plain fat, and the infused butter is stirred in at the end off the heat.
Contains bulk breakfast sausage
Written for
5 mgper plate
6 plates · 50 min
A dipping caramel cooked to 245 °F and then allowed to fall to about 200 °F before the butter goes in — which happens to be the same temperature at which caramel coats an apple instead of sliding off it.
Contains tart apples
Written for
10 mgper apple
8 apples · 50 min
From StrainTrackr. Each of these breeders named farnesene 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.
The other 24
