Drink up! Hooch Recipe

[KrisUpInSmoke]

Came across an old recipe for Hooch, a fermented alcoholic beverage. Although the website says the final drink doesn't taste very good, I thought y'all might be interested anyway.

Hootch
6 oranges
6 lemons
2 yeast cakes (Fleischmann’s)
8 lbs. of sugar
1 1/2 lbs. of raisins
2 gal of water
about 1 doz. cloves
2 1/2 lbs. of yellow corn meal

Let stand for 28 days in 4 gallon crock. Stir every 3 days.

http://www.yesterdish.com/2012/11/13/hooch/

 

[kruizer]

I used to make that recipe while I was on a remote radar site. We would prepare and stand it behind the water heater in the latrine but we let it go for 30days and age it for about 24 hours.

 

[chef jimmyj]

Interesting...Skip the Corn Meal and use a modern Yeast used to make Vodka and you would likely have something you could drink...JJ

 

[foamheart]

We used to call that "Raisin Jack", but I don't remember any corn meal....

 

[daveomak]

That recipe is a form of "Pruno"... Several articles related to it... Be sure to use only "clean" ingredients... Do not use vegetables that grow underground.. carrots, garlic, potatoes etc...

...... Pruno ......
..

 

[TomKnollRFV]

Daveomak that was my first thoughts too..

Whatcha getting into over there Kris!? LOL!

 

[dls1]

Daveomak that was my first thoughts too..

Whatcha getting into over there Kris!? LOL!

Same here. The recipe sounds like a somewhat refined form of Pruno, a long time favorite of inmates in prisons throughout the U.S. Also, in the CDC's listing of known or suspected botulism cases, Pruno usually ranks pretty high as the cause.

Cheers!

 

[zwiller]

Neat recipe. I get some people like to do it old school but I'd modernize. IE George Washington's recipe asks for freshly slaughtered chicken... Once again, CheffJJ is on point... Ditch the corn meal and upgrade yeast. Use some distiller/"turbo" yeast (up to 22%).

 

[TomKnollRFV]

Now that I keep thinking about this, I want to try applejack..another old time recipe..

 

[KrisUpInSmoke]

That recipe is a form of "Pruno"... Several articles related to it... Be sure to use only "clean" ingredients... Do not use vegetables that grow underground.. carrots, garlic, potatoes etc...

...... Pruno ......
..

Same here. The recipe sounds like a somewhat refined form of Pruno, a long time favorite of inmates in prisons throughout the U.S. Also, in the CDC's listing of known or suspected botulism cases, Pruno usually ranks pretty high as the cause.

Cheers!

Oh my! Thanks for chiming in! Goodness! We want everybody safe.

Daveomak that was my first thoughts too..

Whatcha getting into over there Kris!? LOL!

Ahhh...I don't know.... I thought it looked like a fun recipe.

 

[TomKnollRFV]

Well Kris....you try it and if you don't go blind..

Also you could use some of the more unusual beer yeast for this, some are now meant to go up to 25% ABV.