Merry Christmas, Bodhi Army! Hope everyone has a peaceful day surrounded by loved ones.
Woke up early to try to post my butter recipe before the house wakens...
Since my butter is only for myself and wife, I only make a single stick (1/2cup) at a time. We've tried a million entrees and desserts and've found ourselves coming back, full-circle, to the cookie recipe every time. Our method might not win a baking contest but it'll help you sleep better and it does wonders for my wife's RLS (restless leg syndrome).
INGREDIENTS:
Approximately 1 oz of flower or 1.5 oz of
quality trim
1/4 stick of butter
Just shy of 1/2 cup of ghee butter
Approximately 10-12 cups of water
1 packet of Betty Crocker premixed cookie dough
1 egg
TOOLS:
Large mixing bowl
Large pot
Rubber gloves (I like 5-6 mil)
Panty hose legging
32 to 44 oz cup with the bottom cut out
Spatula
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Bring water to a nice boil and then reduce heat so that it's a slow, very low-rolling boil.
- Add butter and flower (stir in material so that everything is wet).
- Stir once/twice an hour for the first few hours and then once every few hours until extraction (I put on butter a few hours before bed and wake up a few times through the night to stir it).
- Cook with this method approximately 8-10 hours or until plant material is shriveled and much darker colored than when cooking started.
- Remove pot from heat/let cool.
- Skirt panty hose (single leg) around the bottomless cup and pour cooled material through the cup and into the panty hose/mixing bowl.
- Your mixing bowl should be situated so you can allow the water and butter to get through the panty hose but not any plant material.
- Once all material is inside of panty hose, toss the cup and strain (I use my hands with rubber gloves) it as best you can (this is where the little bit of extra butter comes in handy - can't recover 100% of it; don't kill yourself trying).
- As you strain the plant material (still inside the panty hose), you'll notice the harder you squeeze, the more dense/oily butter comes out.
- When you've strained all the butter from the plant material, toss the panty hose and plant material.
- Place container/mixing bowl full of water/butter into the fridge and give it a few hours to properly separate. When true separation has occurred, the butter will create a hard, solid layer on top of the water.
- Once separation has occurred, remove the butter from the water and toss the water (I use a spatula and single cup coffee strainer).
- Mix butter, one egg, and contents of cookie package together and cook as instructed via cookie package.
A FEW TIPS:
- Try to set your boil so that it slowly evaporates the water (without a lid). It seems our most potent batches have been boiled ALMOST too much.. to the point the plant material almost burns because there's not enough water; I'll wake up too late because I'm cookie'd out (lol) and there'll be just tiny bit of water left with my leaf/flower material. The first time this happened, I thought I ruined my batch but went ahead and added more water and much to my surprise, we preferred this "overcooked" batch better than our regulars. Once you fine-tune this step, your cookies will become 50-100% better than using the traditional methods of boiling with a lid/water staying full. Also, I know I'm butchering this explanation but I'm trying to hurry to beat the family waking up.
- If you have a hard time mixing the cookie dough, try mixing with hands/rubber gloves. If I use any utensils or mixers/beaters, it's pure hell trying to mix the ingredients.
- Let your butter warm up to room temperature before you add the egg.
- Add the egg and butter (completely mixed) to the bowl BEFORE you add the cookie mix (the last thing you want is monster clumps of egg and/or butter in your cookies). Not mixing the "liquids," first, will result in clumpy/yucky cookies.
- We prefer unsalted butter but salted will work... the main thing about the butter is to buy the highest fat content available. I'm in the process of trying different brands of ghee butter, now.
- Don't be shy to add nuts and/or extra chocolate chips to your mix, if you prefer sweets. Until you learn to make cookies properly, this tip can help with "green tasting" batches.
- I'm sure I'm forgetting more... please don't hesitate to contact me (via PM), if you have any issues with this method.
I'm still playing with the ratios of ghee and regular butter. If I dial in a ratio I believe is optimal, I'll update everyone.
After thinking REALLLLY hard about it, I think DLA 5 (Deep Line Alchemy 5) and mixed batches (of 5-20 strains) have been my favorite Bodhi cookie batches. Like I mentioned, before, cookies can FLOOR you even when the flower doesn't.
Hope this helps some fellow members/readers with RLS.
Merry Christmas!
