Hi treefingers

The reason for 7 grams of ghee/oil is just so you end up with enough mixture to fill 12 capsules.

N.B. If you use hash or kief and oil, you'll have enough mixture to fill each of your 12 caps about 2/3rds of the way up. Or roughly 3/4rs full if you use ground bud and oil.

If you're not making the butter/oil to use in caps you can use more (or even less, but I wouldn't use much less than 7 grams per 1.5 grams of bud).

If I'm just cooking for 'one' I'll simmer 0.3 grams of bud (in an egg cup) with 1/2 a teaspoon of oil (2.5 grams), which, when mixed with a tablespoon of peanut butter, does the job perfectly. Although the taste is a bit 'weedy'. lol

Generally, the cake recipes I tend to use call for about 30 grams of butter per 4 servings (2 tablespoons) which also is fine (again using about a gram and a half of weed).

Hope this helps, what do you have in mind?

P.S. As far as I know (not something I've tried personally) you can just add just enough oil to your ground weed to make a 'paste' and simmer just the same. If anyone has tried this I'd be curious to know how it went.