1934 Irvin S Cobb's own Recipe Book

whiskey and Bourbon whiskey in America. This here fiery stuff called corn whiskey, whether white or red, is an unlaw– ful offshoot from the Bourbon tribe and among Kentuckians, at least, is regarded as but an illegitimate orphan of the Royal Line, born out of wedlock in the shine of the moon, left as a foundling on the doorstep of some convenient bootlegger and ab<;mnding in fusel oil. And it was not this corn whiskey or "moonshine," but true and regal Bourbon (which averages sixty per cent maize) that the l~te Will Lampton had reference to when he penned his immortal verse with its forgivably libelous tag-line:

Kentucky, oh, Kentucky, How I love your classic shades, Where flit the fairy figures Of the star-eyed Southern maids; Where the butterflies are joying 'Mid the blossoms newly born; Where the corn is full of kernels, And The Colonels Fu+l of Corn!

Warning:-Illicit corn liquor may easily be identified by these signs: It smells like gangrene starting in a mildewed 9