During the 18th century, a highly sought after snuff was made at Masulipatnam on the Coromandel coast of South East India and shipped to Fribourg and Treyer in claret bottles. I enclose a description from a periodical of that period:
" It is made of the best tobacco produced in the district ; the mode of preparing it is as follows: The leaves are cut into halves and the stem entirely removed. One half is dried in the sun and pounded into a coarse powder and the second half is boiled twice in salt water, and the juice extracted is used again in the place of salt water with a fresh supply of tobacco. When the juice becomes rather thick and gummy, it is poured into a big pot and left to cool. The tobacco powder is now put into large chatties and the juice, with which a little arrack has been mixed, is poured over the powder, and the preparation is allowed to stand for about a week. The snuff is then taken out and put into English wine bottles and it is ready for exportation."
In essence, every Kg of milled snuff is sauced with a concentrate made from 2kg of Sumatra leaf boiled in water salted with Maldon Sea Salt to which a very small amount of Indian Arack has been added.
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Really getting into my snuff now. White elephant will probably be my favourite for ever. Makes me cry it's that good. But this seems to have a bit of class. courser grain but goes up easy and a really great long lasting smell and nic hit. Top marks guy's.
Nice sweet coarse snuff
This one is absolutely nice. Sweet fermented tobacco with a fruity scent in the background. The tobacco profile changes over the time in the nose. And like all sws nice nicotine too.