A friend of mine and her church group are baking a large batch of cookies to deliver to a pastor at a local prison to give to the inmates. The instructions from the prison clearly stated that there are to be NO RAISINS in the cookies whatsoever. What would be the logic of this, they gonna make their own wine? It would take a whole lotta raisins to make enough wine to even remotely fell a buzz, let alone, the sugar needed for fermentation is mostly gone after baking. Any ideas?
caymus: * What would be the logic of this, they gonna make their own wine? It would take a whole lotta raisins to make enough wine to even remotely fell a buzz, let alone, the sugar needed for fermentation is mostly gone after baking. *
Never underestimate the perseverance and ingenuity of felons in search of chemical stimulants. Check in this inmate slang glossary under the terms “pruno” and “raisin jack”.
Well, all I can think of is that if I were in prison and got some cookies with a bunch of raisins in them, my first thought would be “I bet those aren’t raisins.” Particularly if the prison authorities had kept them a few days and the cookies were a bit stale.
Raisins can be a good source of wild yeast , although I’m sure that baking them would kill any yeasts present. If you’ve got yeast you can ferment sugar water into an alcoholic beverage. The rule is probably intended to prevent people with less noble goals than your friend’s church group from supplying friends with the ingredients for raisin jack.