best to start out with some cannabutter, then you can just cook things that would use butter as normally. you can use it in cookies, cakes, quesadillas, pancakes, toast, baked potato, you get the idea. the trick is to make the cannabutter both pure for taste reasons and strong so you dont have to use any more butter than you normaly would. meaning a teaspoon of butter on toast should get you stoned, if thats the strength you prefer, etc.
Cannabutter a la fornits
ive tried many diferent techniques and this is by far the best i have found. start with a crockpot, they are twenty bucks at walmart for a really nice one that will last forever. grab a few pounds of unsalted butter, some people say plugra is better because of the slightly higher fat content, i have tried both and just go with the cheapo unsalted generic brand butter. its very easy to do.
1. put your butter in the crockpot on a setting of low
2. let the butter melt and add a cup or two of water to prevent butter from burning or evaporating
3. add your buds or trimmings in with the butter
4. cover and leave overnight. (minimum 4 hours, no more than 12 needed max - the longer it simmers the greener your butter will get and stronger)
5. turn the crockpot off and let it cool for a minute or two and then using cheescloth (at any gorvery store) you strain out all the plant matter. just pull the cheescloth over a bowl or container of some kind, and poor the crockpot bowl right over it. if you want your buter really clera, do this a couple times. squeeze out the cheescloth after filtering to be sure to squeeze all the butter out.
6. take the container with the strained butter, and put it in the freezer.
7. about an hour later (depending on how much butter you make) the mix will begin to freeze. the butter rises to the top, and below that is the greenish clear water that needs to be discarded. once the butter has hardedned enough, you crack it out of it's container as gently as you can, and poor out all the waste water that is located beneath the butter.
8. clean off the bottom of your butter chunk. place in container.
now you have super pure cannabis butter that can be added to anything to make it great. i keep a few pounds ready at times in my freezer for cookies mostly, sometimes banana bread. but i thought this would start the thread out nicely since its a good start to many recipes.
the ratio i use
1 pound of butter : 2 ounce of med quality bud trim
or
1 pound of butter: 1/2 ounce of med quality buds
i prefer to use trim for butter and smoke the buds.
:smokin:
my own personal favorite recipe is to make oatmeal rasigin cookies with the cannabutter, and then mix that with ice cream and eat it that way.
oatmeal cookie recipe
Ingredients:
1/4 pound cannabutter!
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt (optional)
1 1/2 cups Quaker Oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)
1 cup raisins
Directions:
Heat oven to 350 F. In large bowl, beat margarine and sugars until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Add combined flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; mix well. Add oats and raisins; mix well.
Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets; remove to wire rack. Cool completely. Store tightly covered.
Get ready to be stoned off your ass for the next 12 hours. Not for lightweights. I've had friends go into 'bad trips' from these cookies before, and they didn't look like they were having fun. Mostly mumbling about never coming out of it and how I laced their cookies with something other than pot. Blastoff!
