National Affairs: Recipe

Prohibition officials in southern Florida last week published a new recipe for getting drunk—a recipe that worried them because they could not see how to stop it. The recipe: into one coconut, bore a hole. Letting no milk leak out, insert two teaspoonfuls of brown sugar, followed by a cork. Refrain from touching the coconut for three weeks. Result: a tumblerful of cocowhiskey—pungent, potent, popular in southern Florida.

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