Martha’s Prison Hooch Recipe

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The Recipe For Prison Pruno*

* — derived from the Jarvis Masters poem of the same name — SEE
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The Ingredients.

Ten oranges. In our prison commissary, Valencia
oranges were on sale, ten for $2. Your prison commissary may differ.

An eight ounce can of fruit cocktail.
In this case, an 8.5 ounce can of Del Monte’s “fruit cocktail in
heavy syrup,” for 90 cents.

Forty to sixty sugarcubes. Either hang out with
old people who still use sugarcubes or steal a ton of sugar packets
from the local deli.

Sixteen ounces of water. Tap is fine, since
like, you *are* in prison.

A big plastic bag that can be sealed. Trashbags
and rubber bands are totally cool. We used Ziploc bags.

Some ketchup. Six packets of ketchup from the
local deli should cover things nicely. Please use Heinz, because anything
else is kinda nasty and will ruin your Pruno.

Also see this on making hooch.