Try making Cavendish at home.

[Chinese explorer]

The raw material is flue-cured tobacco made from the middle leaves of the Honghuadajinyuan variety planted in Yunnan, China.
It was steamed for five hours until it turned dark black.


Put it into a clothes dryer to be dried.

Spray on the liquid made by boiling rock sugar, lemon juice, water and dark rum.

Load it into a steel mold.

Apply pressure to it for two days.

This is the rendering of the leaves of Honghuadajinyuan that I pressed before, which had been fermented at 50 degrees for 20 days.

I cut them into pieces, wrapped them with oil paper and then stored them under vacuum.

 

[adamziegler]

How is the aroma and flavor?

 

[deluxestogie]

Honghuadajinyuan

Honghua Big Gold Circle. Perhaps that's Honghua large gold leaf.

Bob

 

[Knucklehead]

Clothes dryer. Brilliant!

 

[Chinese explorer]

Honghua Big Gold Circle. Perhaps that's Honghua large gold leaf.

Bob

Sorry, the name wasn't translated very accurately.
Honghua Dajinyuan was originally named Lumeiyi Tobacco. In 1962, tobacco farmers in Lumeiyi Village, Lunan County, Yunnan Province selected a single plant from the mutant strain of Dajinyuan. From 1972 to 1974, it was further selected and cultivated by the Flue-cured Tobacco Research Institute of Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Tobacco Leaf Office of Qujing Prefecture. Due to its deep red flower color, it was named Honghua Dajinyuan in 1975. This is one of the main cultivated varieties in Yunnan tobacco-growing areas and has played an important role in the development of "two tobaccos" in Yunnan.

 

[Chinese explorer]

Clothes dryer. Brilliant!

Its heat can also provide warmth for this larger object. They are a set of equipment. If there are fewer things, I will use that white box to dry them.
I even thought about wrapping its surroundings with thermal insulation materials and adding a heat source to make it into a kiln.

 

[Chinese explorer]

How is the aroma and flavor?

It smelled really bad during the first three hours of steaming on the pot. After its color turned black, there would be a fruity sweetness and a hint of baked sweet potato flavor, which should be due to the Maillard reaction. I haven't tasted it yet because it is still under pressure in the iron box. I plan to take it out after pressing for two days, chop it up, then add some almond extract, and finally press it into a cake.

 

[Chinese explorer]

Honghua Big Gold Circle. Perhaps that's Honghua large gold leaf.

Bob

Here is what it looks like.

 

[HillDweller]

Here is what it looks like.View attachment 53860View attachment 53859

Nice looking leaf.