Kentucky Moonshine - cooking recipe
Ingredients
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1 wooden 50 gallon barrel
100 lb. sugar
1 sack wheat
2 cakes Royal Crown yeast
lots of water
Preparation
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Lots of water, but remember that it swells.
This is called mash.
You have to keep it at room temperature, but when you are hiding in the hills, you dig a hole underneath and set a kerosene lamp under the barrel, protected with a tin so it doesn't go up in smoke.
Let it set for 10 days, then you take a wash boiler with coils attached and cook over a good old kerosene two burner stove. This takes many hours and needs to be watched closely.
The coil is connected to a jar below and the liquid slowly drains into the jar. The first batch is called tailing and is not that pure or fit for human consumption, but some just couldn't wait.
The second boil is better, but the third is pure good stuff.
Then you sit back and enjoy every drop.
Also good as medicinal purposes.
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