Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1915 — “Rip Gizzard,” North Carolina’s New “Pizen.” [ARTICLE]

“Rip Gizzard,” North Carolina’s New “Pizen.”

North Carolina’s drastic prohibition laws are being threatened seriously by the new “pizen” invented by the sons of Hyde county. It is a substitute for com liquor called “malt beer” or “Rip Gizzard,” and is highly intoxicating. It is said to have the far-famed “licker” which makes a jack rabbit spit in a bulldog’s eye looking like a dose of soothing-syrup. The recipe calls for a peck of meal, 10 pouhds of sugar and two or three pounds of dried apples. Five gallons of water are added and the conciction is set back of the stove or in the sun to ferment. In a few days it has worked, and is then drawn off ready for the consumer. Negroes are making great quantities and one of them, regarded as an expert, offers the following method: One gallon of meal to two gallons of water. Put on the stove and boil. As soon as the mixture boils, add two pounds of sugar. Pour into a stone crock and let stand a week, by which time it will ferment. Add two pounds of sugar and strain off. This recipe doesn’t require apples. The anti-saloon league and W. C. T. U. of North Carolina are making strenuous efforts to stop this new traffic in intoxicating liquor. The mess is so cheap that many gallons are being made, for private consumption and for sale. “Rig Gizzard” bids fair to supplant every substitute for liquor now being sold in North Carolina.