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Medicine pipe blend
Dan K:
We better get on it then! ;)
JW_Halverson:
I have a redware clay pipe bowl that dates to the late 1600's. One of Jamestown Colonies only successful industries in the early days. I loaded it up with some of Olanigw's special blend and fetched flint and steel to it. It drew nicely, but was too lightly packed at first. A second dash with the flint and steel and it took fire nicely.
It's an interesting blend, quite mild unless you try to puff on it like a steam engine pulling a grade! Definitely the smoothest non-tobacco blend I have ever tried. I have some wild native tobacco leaf that I might try mixing with it, too. I like the idea of having something historically correct in my haversack, and this fits the bill.
Olanigw (Pekane):
--- Quote from: JW_Halverson on November 01, 2013, 09:35:33 pm ---I have a redware clay pipe bowl that dates to the late 1600's. One of Jamestown Colonies only successful industries in the early days. I loaded it up with some of Olanigw's special blend and fetched flint and steel to it. It drew nicely, but was too lightly packed at first. A second dash with the flint and steel and it took fire nicely.
It's an interesting blend, quite mild unless you try to puff on it like a steam engine pulling a grade! Definitely the smoothest non-tobacco blend I have ever tried. I have some wild native tobacco leaf that I might try mixing with it, too. I like the idea of having something historically correct in my haversack, and this fits the bill.
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Thanks for the review, JW! Definitely mix in wild tobacco if you have it, roughly 1:2 with the current mix. Period correct from first contact to present day :)
IsaacW:
--- Quote from: Olanigw (Pekane) on November 03, 2013, 09:57:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: JW_Halverson on November 01, 2013, 09:35:33 pm ---Period correct from first contact to present day :)
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Not to be picky (okay... it is picky) but mullein was an introduced plant. The first contact smoke may not have had it but I know that Peter Kalm (Swedish Botanist) sees it in North America commonly in 1749 and mentions it even being called "Indian Tobacco." This said, I have not seen early references to smoking it, only that it looked similar to Indian Tobacco (Nicotiana rustica). It is a bronchial dialator though and helps open up stuff. I always laugh with my friends that we sometimes put it in the mix to open things up more to take in the nicotine that usual closes things up. :o
Isaac, had a pipe yesterday!!
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Olanigw (Pekane):
--- Quote from: IsaacW on November 04, 2013, 10:26:40 am ---
--- Quote from: Olanigw (Pekane) on November 03, 2013, 09:57:17 pm ---Period correct from first contact to present day :)
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Not to be picky (okay... it is picky) but mullein was an introduced plant. The first contact smoke may not have had it but I know that Peter Kalm (Swedish Botanist) sees it in North America commonly in 1749 and mentions it even being called "Indian Tobacco." This said, I have not seen early references to smoking it, only that it looked similar to Indian Tobacco (Nicotiana rustica). It is a bronchial dialator though and helps open up stuff. I always laugh with my friends that we sometimes put it in the mix to open things up more to take in the nicotine that usual closes things up. :o
Isaac, had a pipe yesterday!!
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In western abenaki, the name for mullein is literally "magician/medicine man's tobacco". It didn't take long for mullein to spread from the jesuits' and early settlers' gardens to those of the shamans/medicine men/spiritual leaders.
How long until it naturalized in the wild? no clue. When did it make its way into "recreational" smokes? Even less of a clue.
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