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Member’s Work Bench => Traditional Food => Topic started by: Hammerhead on February 20, 2012, 04:54:48 AM

Title: pipe tobacco substitute
Post by: Hammerhead on February 20, 2012, 04:54:48 AM
does anyone on here have their own recipes for pipe tobacco substitutes for a young man of legal age to smoke out of his pipe at rondy
Title: Re: pipe tobacco substitute
Post by: Dogshirt on February 20, 2012, 05:16:30 AM
Inner bark of red willow and kinickkinick or bearberry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearberry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinnikinnick
Title: Re: pipe tobacco substitute
Post by: Hammerhead on February 20, 2012, 05:20:58 AM
i dont think there are any bearberrys or red willows around here. i would hate to pay shipping for kinnik kinnik
Title: Re: pipe tobacco substitute
Post by: Mortblanc on February 20, 2012, 06:30:05 PM
Jump into your car and travel to any of the larger cities in Ohio.  

Find Vine Street.  It does not matter which city, just look for Vine Street.

Drive down Vine Street until you reach an area that makes you feel uncomfortable, then look for the guy standing on the corner.

Pull over and tell this man you need something to smoke besides tobacco.

He will fix you right up! :mini-devil-28492:

Now, seriously;

Go to you best local tobacco shop and ask for tobacco substitutes.  They have them as lose pipe tobacco or rolled as cigarettes.

Most are combinations of tea leaves, flower petals and various herbs.


Smoking was universal everywhere in the 18th century, frontier and city.  People often wore down the front teeth with their clay pipe stems, creating a notch beside the incisors.  Men, women and children all took the pipe.  Teachers had a smoke break for the kids in school and there was no age limit.  Toddlers sometimes got a pull from mom's pipe.  They were smoking as soon as they were weaned.  Today you would go to jail for what was common on the frontier.
Title: Re: pipe tobacco substitute
Post by: Wild Ed on February 20, 2012, 11:45:23 PM
Loose Catnip Tea
Title: Re: pipe tobacco substitute
Post by: kybackwoodsman on September 18, 2012, 02:55:58 AM
Dried mullien leaves. It grows wild everywhere. is good for clearing up cogestion in the chest. Natives used a mixture of mullien n coltsfoot. Be warnd dont use anything thats been chemicaly sprayed.
Title: Re: pipe tobacco substitute
Post by: david32cal on September 18, 2012, 01:22:18 PM
https://frontierfolk.ipower.com/cgi-bin/ecommerce/ac/agora.cgi?cart_id=8217732.6363*LG4TE0&product=tobacco

scroll down to the tobacco section