Sunday, September 21, 2008

Making an Oleum, Version 1

I've already made up a base earlier and so I wanted to finish it off an make an actual oleum. Due to the up coming holiday I wanted to make oleum of Leviathan so I gathered the ingredients, tools and that made up base.

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The dry materials consisted of sea salt and calamus root. I grounded the calamus but didn't bother grinding the salt - it is salt, I don't think I could get it finer.

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I added everything to the double boiler and boiled it for about 15 minutes:

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I then strained it through a fine mess strainer:

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The mix in the strainer still looked like it had a lot of oil still in it so I put it into a clean, dry rag:

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and squeezed it:

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then I strained it some more:

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I then added tincture of benzoin to the oleum to add to its shelf life:

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Next was bottling time:

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And the finished product:

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5 comments:

S. J. Reisner || Audrey Brice || S. Connolly said...

I love the step-by-step pics. :)

Jaclyn said...

I second the previous comment, love the photos.

Jeremy said...

Thank you!

Anonymous said...

Looks great:), I just made my first Oleum today.

Ardors said...

Beautiful ;)