Some Virginia red and Virginia lemon cavendish I made about a week ago. I've made it a few times with good success but I wanted to snap a picture of it to show. I wish I can convince more people to go the way of whole leaf & grow yer own. Why do I sometimes feel a little frustrated that it should be wayyy more circulated amongst the buyers of commercial tobacco ? I still buy some commercial tobacco, but most of what I have is all WLT. Anyways... I just used a pressure cooker pot with roughly 1/3 water. I have a circular rack that fit in the top part of it after a little modification. I cooked/steamed/pressure the leaf for 4 hours with a low to low medium flame. Most of it was a brown to dark brown color when I first took it out then darkened up when it was drying. I did get a chance to smoke some out of a MM cob (country gentleman). I'm not good at describing tobacco but the Red Virginia had a light to light medium strength to the flavor itself, and kind of a dark mustiness to it along with an altered Virginia flavor I would say with a little bit of mushroom in the back round. The lemon was about the same but had a little more spiciness to it. As far as drying it, I laid it all out on a couple of pieces of cardboard to dry. For somebody that has never dried cavendish, you need to dry it more than you think as you will find out. One of the things I enjoy about making cavendish and smoking it is that it smells like boiled peanuts while it's steaming away. Anyways, I just thought I'd share that.
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