yojo

Hey! My account finally activated. Now I can share the recipe I been jonesing to get out. So I've read a lot of threads using a lot more pot than I thought was necessary to get high, so I did a little experiment in my college living place. It's a student run house of about 50 people, and we had a little party. I volunteered to make some pot cookies. Here's what I did, what I used, and how it worked (which was, excellent).

Stage 1: Making the butter.

I started this the night before I wanted to cook. First I took a medium soup pot (the kind you might use to cook like noodles for four), and filled it 3/4 of the way. I brought it to a boil, then added one stick of butter. Be careful here, as the mixture will foam up, and you want to keep the water/butter in the pot. So turn the heat down and watch it. When the water/butter mix settles down a bit, you're ready to add the weed.

I used 1/8th of middle quality bud (it was $35, while primo weed here is around $50); some crystals, no hair, a little piney scent, about what you expect form mids. My advanced preperation method was to simply drop this shit in the boiling water. I didn't chop it or anything like that, but you can if you want.

I then turned the heat up a little and rapidly boiled it for like ten minutes (that's when the surface of the water is all crazy bubbly), then turned it down to a simmer, COVERED IT, and let it simmer for four hours. I think covering is probably important, as you make sure the system is closed/nothing much is vaporizing into the air. I checked the mixture every half hour to an hour to make sure it had enough water.

After the four hours was up, I used a fork to remove the buds and put them in a smaller dish, and tried to strain out whatever butter/water mixture I could by mashing them. I put the reclaimed liquid back with the rest of the water/butter, put the cover back on, stuck it in the fridge, and went to bed. As for the spent buds, I tossed them, though one could try and dry them/smoke them. I doubt there's much left though.

Over night the clarified butter rose to the top and solidified. I used a knife and slotted spoon to get all the little pieces, and put the greenish butter into a smaller container. This is the cannabutter.

Stage 2: the cooking
The recipe:
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 1/4 stick regular butter
All the pot butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed (smashed down) brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 cups chocolate chips

Baking:
Preheat oven to 375
mix flour, baking soda, and salt in a little bowl. Melt the regular butter a little in the microwave, and then mix all the butter with both sugars and the vanilla in a large bowl. Make sure to mash them all together real well (it'll seem like you don't have enough butter at first, but you do). Next add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each one. Finally, gradually add in the flour mixture, and stir until it's all moist looking. Stir in the chocolate chips last.

Put tablespoon size lumps on a cookie sheet, making sure to leave space in between. I got about 60 such cookies out of the recipe. Put them in the oven for about ten minutes (until they look a little golden), then take them out. You may want to try making the cookies once without pot to be sure you've got it all down, wouldn't want to waste precious buds. Anyway, now you're ready for stage 3.

Stage 3: Profit
If you've followed my directions, you now have 60 delicious cookies with no plant matter in them, and with only the slightest hint of a marijuana taste. Do not be deceived, these are powerful fucks.

Results:
1) To test potency, I gave two cookies to a 6'2, 160 pound daily smoker. He reported they kicked in after about an hour, and made him very pleasantly high for a couple hours.
2) I myself (5'8, 130 lbs) ate two cookies at the party, though later smoked a bunch as well. I got really, really stoned, and ended up walking down to campus and staring at our belltower for half an hour.
3) My girlfriend (5'0, 100 lbs) (who has previously tried but not managed to get stoned) also took two cookies, and also smoked. She was high off her ass, and a little panicky, though was fine because we were in a comfortable situation. She sat with me for staring at the belltower.
4) Another girl in my house (5'4, maybe 120) also ate two cookies and smoked, and also reported getting uncomfortably stoned (too much).
5) A few days later I redosed with just two cookies. They took around an hour to kick in, and I was quite high for maybe four hours.
6) My girlfriend also redosed with me, and was also quite high for an additional four hours.
A number of other people in my house also had cookies, but were mixing with so many other substances they were way out of it, and thus are not good proofs of potency. However, it is fair to say the cookies paid a role.

Conclusions: