num_pages: 256
description: Prompted by a found notebook of illicit booze recipes here are more than 100 secret and forgotten formulas for cordials bitters spirits and cocktails gorgeously illustrated and explained.American Prohibition was far from watertight. If you knew the right people or the right place to be you could get a drinkmost likely a variation of the real thing made by blending smuggled industrial alcohol or homemade moonshines with extracts herbs and oils to imitate the aroma and taste of familiar spirits. Most of the illegal recipes were written out by hand and secretly shared. The lost recipes in this book come from one such compilation a journal hidden within an antique book of poetry with 300 entries on making liquors cordials absinthe bitters and wine. Lost Recipes of Prohibition features more than 70 pages from this notebook with explanations and descriptions for real and faked spirits. Readers will also find historic and modern cocktails from some of today's leading bartenders including rum shrubs DIY summer cups sugar-frosted ice cordials 19th- and 21st-century cinnamon whiskeys homemade creme de menthe absinthe-spiked cocktail onions caramel lemonade and more. 
language: English
title: Lost Recipes of Prohibition: Notes from a Bootlegger's Manual
publisher: Countryman Press