Valentine’s Day Moonshine Recipe

Title: Valentine’s Day Moonshine Recipe

General Information about Item:

  • Textual folklore, material folklore, recipe
  • Place of origin: Upper Valley
  • Informant (Anonymous) A
  • Date Collected: 2/24/18

Informant Data: Informant A was born and raised in the Upper Valley, and has spent most of the last 3 decades living in Vermont and working as a roofer. His family has a rich tradition of making moonshine, and in his spare time he enjoys building things on his property.

Contextual Data:

  • Social Context: This special recipe was actually created by Informant A himself, though Informant C also uses it now as well, as a gift to his wife (Informant B) one Valentine’s Day years ago. He only makes one batch of it a year, before every Valentine’s Day. For the bottle that he makes, only he and his wife are allowed to consume it.
  • Cultural Context: Special recipes are not specific to informant A and C. They related how many moonshiners they know also have special recipes for which they are well known, and only rarely produce

Item: Special Valentine’s day recipe, it is a smaller batch of moonshine that has flavors strawberry, honey, a some cinnamon. Usually accompanied by chocolates

Associated file (a video, audio, or image file):

Transcript:

Informant’s Comments: While Informant C loves it, it is not Informant A’s favorite recipe

Collector’s Comments: It was intriguing to here widespread special recipes are among moonshiners

Collector’s Name: Cormac Dugan

Tags/Keywords:

  • Recipe
  • Celebration
  • Material/textual folkore

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