keep the heating temperature below 300 degrees. soak herbs in alcohol for about an hour, then add water and butter and heat for about eight more hours. remove from heat, smash down herbs to bottom and let it cool in the fridge so the butter hardens on top. scoop it off and make something nice with it.
the main advantage is the alcohol presoak, all of which cooks off so you have no alcohol in the finished butter, but this method should make it more potent. for even better results you can clarify your butter first to make ghee, or if you prefer you can just use evoo. not sure if that works as well in brownies though.
i generally use oil in brownies, but butter would add a nice flavor to them. the flavor of evoo goes better with savory items than with sweet, so i generally use canola oil in things like brownies and cookies.
another thing you can do with the oil is mix it with tiger balm or beeswax and make it transdermal, good for aches and pains and anointing and stuff. :)
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Brownies are nummy. Especially when they are made with special butter.
mmmmmmm, yes! those would be some brownies i could inhale.
here's a recipe for the butter.
keep the heating temperature below 300 degrees. soak herbs in alcohol for about an hour, then add water and butter and heat for about eight more hours. remove from heat, smash down herbs to bottom and let it cool in the fridge so the butter hardens on top. scoop it off and make something nice with it.
thanks. i've got recipes for tinctures and decoctions, but hadn't seen that method.
the main advantage is the alcohol presoak, all of which cooks off so you have no alcohol in the finished butter, but this method should make it more potent. for even better results you can clarify your butter first to make ghee, or if you prefer you can just use evoo. not sure if that works as well in brownies though.
i generally use oil in brownies, but butter would add a nice flavor to them. the flavor of evoo goes better with savory items than with sweet, so i generally use canola oil in things like brownies and cookies.
another thing you can do with the oil is mix it with tiger balm or beeswax and make it transdermal, good for aches and pains and anointing and stuff. :)
anointing! :D
and i love tiger balm.
yeah, it's not precisely the old recipe but close enough if you're not too conservative about such things...
it's better than crisco, anyhow.
crisco! good heavens.
me? conservative? ;)
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