Lost Recipes of Prohibition: Notes from a Bootlegger's Manual

A secret, handwritten collection of illicit booze recipes—hidden in a volume of poetry during the Prohibition—annotated and explained in fascinating detail
Nearly everyone has heard of bathtub gin, but how many people know what it really was—or how to make it? During the height of the Prohibition, one anonymous physician compiled more than 200 recipes for “compounding” spirits, hiding the manuscript from authorities. By adding extracts, essences, and oils to plain old sugar moonshine, boot…