Recipes with historic origins

[njscofflaw]

Hi Everyone,

As I mentioned in another thread, my wife and I are very much into history, particularly that of prohibition and the 1920s/30s. I've been curious about any recipes that have historic origins. I realize that many recipes have evolved to be "tried and true" over the years, but was curious specifically of recipes that have interesting history that can be traced, or come from a historically relevant event, figure or other occurrence, much like George Washington's Rye Whiskey recipe. Any authentic (and safe) prohibition era recipes are of interest as well.

Unfortunately Google searches don't turn up much in the way of historic, except for several absinthe recipes, and many of them are on here.


Thanks so much!

[HolyBear]

Look through "The Book of Dnderhead", in one of his posts he was talking about an authentic sugar head using horse piss and meat, , used during proabition.

[njscofflaw]

What the hell am I getting myself into.

[Dnderhead]

if you look you can see why...Urine is made up of water, urea, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, phosphates, amino acids, uric acid, organic and inorganic compounds, urobilin, hormones and enzymes.

(it was also evaporated and used to manufacturer black gunpowder,and knives,but thats another story)

[Bushman]

if you look you can see why...Urine is made up of water, urea, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, phosphates, amino acids, uric acid, organic and inorganic compounds, urobilin, hormones and enzymes.

(it was also evaporated and used to manufacturer black gunpowder,and knives,but thats another story)

This stuff is just too good! If I were you njscofflaw, I would PM dnderhead and get some type of dialog going.

[Durace11]

That coon meat and horse piss recipe is by far my favorite Dunderhead quote in "The Book" or anywhere else on this forum. And the actual thread where it was posted just stopped the conversation in it's tracks as far as re-creating an "Old Time" recipe. You didn't run down to the feed store or the supply store, there was none back then. That's the stuff, right there!

As to the OP, I did this same thing when I got interested in mead making. Researching historical recipes can be daunting, and researching non-english recipes is even harder for an english only speaker/reader. Some of the oldest european recipes are hella hard to read when they have stuff like "take a barrel halfful and an eighth as warm as the hand" & "six and seven handfuls of <insert unknown weed reference here> flower". It makes for a long reading day for sure.

Member Onemarleyfan has been posting a lot of historical links lately concerning the probition era happenings around California. That might be a good start.

[Clearwater]

Per Moonshiners last night, there's a recipe for George Washington Rye Whiskey out there somewhere. I'm not stating that is a true fact or the show is "solid", but rather just sharing on the chance that it may very well be true.

[njscofflaw]

Thanks clearwater. It's been published in a few books and on a few sites, though as you said, I don't know the historical accuracy of it, but I figured I'd give it a try...In fact it's my next up run and has been settling for a week or so.

That horsepiss and coon meat recipe is just....wow. I have no words .

I have seen OneMarleyFan's posts....since some of the places he's posted are almost in my back yard....It makes for INTERESTING reading .

[Durace11]

here is some more great history, damn this forum is just full of great reading.
http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... 222#p16222

[njscofflaw]

Funny...

I was just reading about GP a few days ago. I noticed the RIP icon, and did some digging. Then it got depressing, though it sounds like his legacy lives on here which is never a bad thing.

Thanks for the link(s). When I get a free moment at work, I'll have to go through all of that .

[njscofflaw]

As a somewhat follow up / observation. If you search "Horse piss" on this forum, you get MANY interesting results, not the least of which is nearly EVERY post by Prairie Piss .

[Dnderhead]

horse piss contains nitrates,,,meat contains amino acids ..both good for ferments is small amounts.to much and just like over fertilizing plants it will "burn" and kill.