Re: Making Cayenne Tincture Tomorrow...

Wow, thanks for the heads up about tomorrow being the new moon, I must have my head in the sand.  I'm down to a little under a gallon of echinacea so I need to tincture some more tomorrow. 

I've never made the cayenne tincture with powder, I made mine with fresh habbies and added a 1/2 cup or 1 cup (can't remember and can't find where I wrote it down lol) of both the powders.  I'm thinking Uny told me to use 3/4 part ABP and 1/4 part habbie powder in the 1/2 or 1 cup that I added to the fresh.

Since you have the powder I'd use 3/4 part AFBP and 1/4 part habbie and I wouldn't put more than like a couple of cups in the gallon jar because for some reason dried peppers are much hotter than fresh and I'm thinking Uny told me that if you get it too hot it's very hard to tone it down without using lots more vodka.  

I don't really know how much 2 cups would fill a gallon jar but I wouldn't want to put more than like an inch and a half to two inches of powder in the bottom of the jar.  You could always test it in a couple of days and if it's not hot enough you can add more powder, I'd rather do that than to end up with Uny's #3 cayenne lol!  

Well heck, the more I write the more I can't figure out what to say lol.  Okay, here is what I would do if I were using the powder.  I'd start with 3/4 cup of the ABP and 1/4 cup habbie, dump those in and see how high up in the jar that was.  If it wasn't at least a little over an inch I'd add maybe 1/2 cup ABP and 1/8 cup habbie.  Does any of this make sense?????

I don't know if this is an option but if you could get your hands on some fresh hot peppers they would tone down the hotness for sure.  If you can't by tomorrow and your tincture turns out to be liquid fire lol you could always get some fresh peppers, macerate them and plop 'em in there to tone it down without having to buy more vodka.

I started out making all my tinctures in 1/2 gallon jars but I was so excited and wanted them to be way strong that I ended up having to split them because the herbs swelled up so much.  I ended up with a gallon of almost all the tinctures I made lol.  

My cayenne tincture turned out great, all of them did and yours will too and you'll feel such goodness tincturing! ;)