Speaker 1: Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shonda Land Audio in
Speaker 1: partnership with I Heart Radio. Welcome to the first episode
Speaker 1: of a new season of Criminalia. This season, we're talking
Speaker 1: about body snatchers and the bodies they snatched. Writer Ambrose
Speaker 1: Bears may have somewhat the best in his work The
Speaker 1: Devil's Dictionary when he wrote that a body snatcher is
Speaker 1: quote one who supplies the young physicians with that which
Speaker 1: the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. His sardonicquit aside,
Speaker 1: Bears wasn't wrong. I'm Maria T. Marquis and I'm Holly
Speaker 1: Fry and this season is going to be all about
Speaker 1: the lives and fates of those who engaged in the
Speaker 1: grizzly business of digging up fresh corpses from graveyards. And
Speaker 1: this first episode of the season is about when and
Speaker 1: why they sold those corpses to anatomists and medical schools
Speaker 1: across London for dissection and research, and how this could
Speaker 1: be a pretty lucrative business to be in. Of course,
Speaker 1: just as in previous seasons, we are continuing to look
Speaker 1: at what really went down and the context of it all,
Speaker 1: and if maybe any of these historical activities might look
Speaker 1: different through our modern perspective and spoiler alerts. Sometimes they do,
Speaker 1: sometimes they don't. But to talk about this subject, we're
Speaker 1: going to start outside of London and with Leonardo da Vinci.
Speaker 1: This may seem like a strange place to begin because
Speaker 1: many of us think of da Vinci as the painter
Speaker 1: of some very famous works of art, including the Mona
Speaker 1: Lisa and The Last Supper. And yes he was that,
Speaker 1: but he was more than a painter. He was also
Speaker 1: an engineer, a scientist, a theorist, a sculptor, and an architect.
Speaker 1: And he was also an anatomist who completed hundreds of
Speaker 1: drawings and thousands of notes documenting his findings about how
Speaker 1: the human body worked, and his work was groundbreaking. He
Speaker 1: produced to the first accurate to pay action of the
Speaker 1: human spine, and his notes document the earliest known description
Speaker 1: of cirrhosis of the liver. He made structural and functional
Speaker 1: discoveries about the human heart, and he was the first
Speaker 1: anatomist known to correctly note the number and root structure
Speaker 1: of human teeth. He did all of this with the
Speaker 1: use of cadavers. In fact, in total, da Vinci dissected
Speaker 1: more than thirty corpses. So where might one get more
Speaker 1: than thirty corpses for study during the fifteenth century, might wonder?
Speaker 1: Many were likely procured by body snatchers, and the first
Speaker 1: recorded case of body snatching is attributed to four medical
Speaker 1: students in Bologna, Italy in thirteen nineteen, so a bit
Speaker 1: before Da Vinci's time. Then if we skip ahead of
Speaker 1: fifteen thirty six, we find anatomist, physician and author of
Speaker 1: one of the most influential books on human anatomy, Andreas Vesalius,
Speaker 1: exhuming corpses from cemeteries around Paris to study human anatomy. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that we have established that there has been this
Speaker 1: tradition of digging up bodies for science in the Western world.
Speaker 1: This episode finds us in the early eighteen hundreds, where
Speaker 1: body snatchers, or resurrection men as they were known in
Speaker 1: London at the time, were at the service of anyone
Speaker 1: who needed a corpse and was willing to pay for it.
Speaker 1: Resurrectionists worked in groups in secret in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night, exhuming or resurrecting, as their name suggests, freshly
Speaker 1: interred corpses from grave sites. As sinister as this sounds,
Speaker 1: this was a business, and bodies were a commodity, and
Speaker 1: this was a low overhead business to get into because
Speaker 1: all you needed for body snatching were a few basic
Speaker 1: things a shovel, a lantern, a large bag, and a
Speaker 1: wheelbarrow for the hall. Knowing where the fresh graves were
Speaker 1: wasn't hard. Either. You could stake out the local burial grounds,
Speaker 1: or you could bribe the grave digger or someone in
Speaker 1: a local hospital to get you inform should you needed.
Speaker 1: A skilled gang of body snatchers needed less than thirty
Speaker 1: minutes to exhume a body, and those who are really
Speaker 1: good at what they did could score a dozen or
Speaker 1: more bodies in one night. You also, of course, had
Speaker 1: to be strong, because this work included not just a
Speaker 1: lot of digging, but also hauling a corpse or sometimes
Speaker 1: even a coffin, and it surely was better if you
Speaker 1: had a strong stomach as well. We're going to take
Speaker 1: a break for a word from our sponsor, and when
Speaker 1: we're back, we're going to talk about the increasing demand
Speaker 1: for cadavers and why supply couldn't meet that demand. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Criminalia. Before we get into who supplied bodies
Speaker 1: to whom, let's talk about what happened to the body
Speaker 1: snatching business between the Murder Act of seventy one and
Speaker 1: the end that of the Act of eighteen thirty two.
Speaker 1: The demand for bodies in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain
Speaker 1: was created by anatomy professors, surgeons and medical students for
Speaker 1: both dissection and for use in anatomy classes at medical schools.
Speaker 1: In the seventeen forties, the way London teaching hospitals and
Speaker 1: private anatomy schools taught medical students changed. Instead of would
Speaker 1: have been commonplace a single cadaver displayed and dissected by
Speaker 1: an instructor in anatomy lectures, a new way of instruction,
Speaker 1: known as the Paris method of dissection became the popular practice.
Speaker 1: This new method was much more hands on, as each
Speaker 1: student was given parts of the cadaver to study. That
Speaker 1: meant every dissection at every school now needed not just
Speaker 1: one corpse to work on per class, but potentially dozens.
Speaker 1: Add that up across Britain and the numbers grow quickly.
Speaker 1: All parts of the corps were dissected and used for
Speaker 1: teaching and anything unusual such as a tumor, congenital abnormality
Speaker 1: or a surprising cause of death was preserved in alcohol
Speaker 1: in a glass jar. When Parliament passed the Murder Act
Speaker 1: of seventeen fifty one, it legalized the medical dissection of
Speaker 1: convicted killers as a kind of posthumous execution. But because
Speaker 1: the only bodies legally available for medical dissection were the
Speaker 1: remains of executed criminals, demand pretty quickly outpaced supply. Body
Speaker 1: snatching in London peaked between eighteen hundred and eighteen thirty two,
Speaker 1: and medical schools often paid a hefty price for the
Speaker 1: product that the body snatchers provided. Up until the enactment
Speaker 1: of the Anatomy Act of two in Britain, which we'll
Speaker 1: talk about in just a minute, stealing a corpsmate grave
Speaker 1: was not itself illegal, as the Corps had no legal
Speaker 1: standing and was not considered to be owned by anyone.
Speaker 1: The punishment if a resurrectionist was caught was relatively minor,
Speaker 1: and that was for a couple of reasons. One evidence,
Speaker 1: in these cases it was hard to collect those bodies
Speaker 1: had been dissected, and without a body there really wasn't
Speaker 1: a crime. There was a fresh but empty grave. But
Speaker 1: because corps has disappeared fast, usually the same night they
Speaker 1: were interred, all that could be prosecuted in court was
Speaker 1: the desecration of a grave. Authorities were known to make
Speaker 1: arrests if something other than a body was stolen. For instance,
Speaker 1: a body snatcher could be punished for the theft of
Speaker 1: the burial clothing of the corpse, but not the theft
Speaker 1: of the corpse itself. Most often, though, authorities just turned
Speaker 1: a blind eye to the whole business, and most often
Speaker 1: because they were bribed either by the buyer or the seller,
Speaker 1: or by both. Unlike the police, though families did care.
Speaker 1: The Anatomy Act of two was enacted by Parliament in
Speaker 1: direct response to public outrage at the theft and sale
Speaker 1: of corpses, and it also addressed the legality of dissecting
Speaker 1: a corpse. It was designed to stop the body snatchers
Speaker 1: by basically legislating a new and legal and free source
Speaker 1: of corpses. It regulated the supply of cadavers for medical
Speaker 1: research and anatomy teaching. Under this new act, anatomists were
Speaker 1: given access to what we're called unclaimed bodies. Those were
Speaker 1: people who had died without anyone to claim them for burial.
Speaker 1: Before this legislature, as we said, just a moment ago,
Speaker 1: only the bodies of executed criminals could legally be used
Speaker 1: for dissection under the Murder Act of seventeen fifty one,
Speaker 1: so this move was really quite a big change. The
Speaker 1: Anatomy Act also allowed for personal donations of a body
Speaker 1: by the individual or the next of kin to medical science,
Speaker 1: and regarding the dissection itself, the Act required doctors and
Speaker 1: anatomy teachers to obtain licenses to legally dissect donated corpses.
Speaker 1: The Act did do what it intended. It increased the
Speaker 1: number of bodies supplied to London medical schools from an
Speaker 1: estimated three hundred per year to six hundred per year,
Speaker 1: and those were all legally sourced cadavers. So it's a
Speaker 1: little bit early, but we're going to take a break
Speaker 1: for word from our sponsor. When we're back, we'll introduce
Speaker 1: you to the infamous Borrow Gang and talk about their
Speaker 1: influence on the corpse supply chain. Welcome back to Criminalia.
Speaker 1: Let's meet Ben Crouch and the Borrow Gang in eighteen tens,
Speaker 1: so roughly twenty years before the Anatomy Act was in place.
Speaker 1: The Borrow Gang or the Borough Boys as you'll sometimes
Speaker 1: see them referred to, with London's most notorious group of
Speaker 1: body snatchers. The district of central London known as Southard
Speaker 1: had been known as the Borough since the sixteenth century,
Speaker 1: and it's there where the gang ran their business and
Speaker 1: stole many bodies from graves. Benjamin Crouch led the group
Speaker 1: during its first years in practice, and during his time
Speaker 1: as a resurrectionist, he became known by the evocative sobriquet
Speaker 1: of the Corpse King. Ben's background didn't exactly telegraph that
Speaker 1: he'd turned to a career of digging up bodies for
Speaker 1: quick cash. He was the son of a carpenter and
Speaker 1: was a well known prize fighter in his day. He's
Speaker 1: described as a tall, flamboyantly dressed man with a pox
Speaker 1: marked face, who loved to wear gold jewelry, especially gold rings.
Speaker 1: He could be violent and intimidating, especially if he'd been
Speaker 1: at the pub. Members of the Corpse King's gang included
Speaker 1: Bill Harnett, Jack Harnett, Joseph Naples, Daniel Butler, and a
Speaker 1: man referred to as Hollis. This is perhaps Bill Hollis,
Speaker 1: but that particular detail is a little bit fuzzy. Over
Speaker 1: more than a decade, members of this group came and went,
Speaker 1: and a man named Patrick Murphy eventually succeeded Ben as
Speaker 1: the Borough Gangs leader. But we're going to focus on
Speaker 1: the group's beginning. When Ben Crow, which was involved in
Speaker 1: heading up the operation, anatomist sir asked they Cooper, it said,
Speaker 1: may have introduced Ben Crouch to body snatching at the
Speaker 1: time when Cooper had been appointed Professor of Comparative Anatomy
Speaker 1: at the Royal College of Surgeons in London, position where
Speaker 1: he would have needed a steady supply of cadavers from Cooper.
Speaker 1: Ben learned that it could be quite a lucrative business,
Speaker 1: and Cooper, It's thought, kept Crauch busy and probably intervened
Speaker 1: on his behalf if anyone came around asking questions. There's was.
Speaker 1: It appears to be a symbiotic relationship. The Borrow Gang
Speaker 1: identified their targets, often through connections that gave them information,
Speaker 1: but also just by loitering around graveyards and funerals because
Speaker 1: there were always corpses that were about to be buried.
Speaker 1: They would wait until the cover of night to dig
Speaker 1: up the grave, break into the coffin, and refilled the
Speaker 1: site with dirt to conceal their theft. Ben had formerly
Speaker 1: worked as a porter at Guy's Hospital and other and
Speaker 1: certainly still had connections on the inside who could share
Speaker 1: when and where to find the freshest corpses, both in
Speaker 1: the hospital burial site and beyond its yards. Bun Ill
Speaker 1: Burial Ground also known as Bunner or Bunner Fields, has
Speaker 1: been a burial ground in cemetery going back for centuries
Speaker 1: before our resurrectionists. That name actually comes from bone Hill
Speaker 1: and the grounds were a prime target for London's resurrectionists
Speaker 1: due to the proximity to St Bart's Hospital in the
Speaker 1: Smithfield area of London, conveniently for us. One of the
Speaker 1: gang's members, Joseph Naples, kept account of the gang's business
Speaker 1: a kind of diary slash ledger of their work in
Speaker 1: eighteen eleven and eighteen twelve. Joseph, unlike Ben, was considered civil,
Speaker 1: with respectful manners and a pleasant way about him. Let's
Speaker 1: take a look at his records. Adult bodies were referred
Speaker 1: to as largest and children were smalls. Fetis and bodies
Speaker 1: with any kind of abnormality both fetched high prices, as
Speaker 1: did teeth, which were sold to dentists to be used
Speaker 1: to make dentures for the living. Hair, too, could be
Speaker 1: sold to wigmakers for a tidy sum. A sample entry
Speaker 1: from November eighteen eleven. Talies up one night's work like
Speaker 1: this Wednesday fourth at night, went out and got ten whole.
Speaker 1: Went to Green and got four Black crib one Butnerfield's five.
Speaker 1: On another night in eighteen twelve, Joseph recorded that the
Speaker 1: gang stole a total of thirteen adult corpses and two children.
Speaker 1: Writing quote December two, eighteen twelve, met at Vicker's Pub,
Speaker 1: rectified our last account. The party sent out Me and
Speaker 1: Ben to St. Thomas's crib, got one adult. Bill and
Speaker 1: Jack went to Guy's crib, got two adults, but one
Speaker 1: of them opened, took them to St. Thomas's, came home.
Speaker 1: Met at St. Thomas's. Me and Jack went to Tottenham,
Speaker 1: got four adults. Ben and Bill went to St. Pancras,
Speaker 1: got six adults, one small and one fetus. Took the
Speaker 1: Tottenham mott to Wilson, the St. Pancras lot to Bart's.
Speaker 1: It was Ben who handled the gang's negotiations and transactions
Speaker 1: with the surgeons and anatomists. By most accounts, the gang
Speaker 1: charged two or three guineas for an adult corpse, which
Speaker 1: was considered to be a body measuring taller than three feet.
Speaker 1: They collected up to one guinea for an infant or
Speaker 1: a child. Some accounts report that Ben was smart and
Speaker 1: a pretty ruthless businessman who secured upfront fees of up
Speaker 1: to fifty guineas for a corpse to be delivered at
Speaker 1: a later time. A guinea for any of us who
Speaker 1: aren't sure, is no longer legal tender, but one guinea
Speaker 1: is roughly equivalent to one pound and five pence in
Speaker 1: modern currency. You could make good money in the body
Speaker 1: snatching business, but the business was rough. Rival gangs would
Speaker 1: rat on each other, hoping the others would be jailed.
Speaker 1: Gangs were also rough with their clients. In one reported
Speaker 1: incident in eighteen sixteen, the Borough Gang overwhelmed surgeons and
Speaker 1: anatomists at St Thomas's Hospital, intimidating them, or, as the
Speaker 1: gang saw it, reminding them that they were the only
Speaker 1: gang the hospital was allowed to work with when it
Speaker 1: came to supplying fresh corpses. It wasn't the only visit
Speaker 1: of that nature they made around the city. Then claimed
Speaker 1: to have secured monopoly of corpse delivery to at least
Speaker 1: half the teaching hospitals in London, including his former employer
Speaker 1: Guy's hospital. I mean, who are we kidding? He probably did.
Speaker 1: Sometime in or around eighteen seventeen, Ben got out of
Speaker 1: the resurrection business, although not really all the way. Out
Speaker 1: of the business of bodies and giving body parts to
Speaker 1: people for money, Ben and a fellow resurrectionist named Jack
Speaker 1: Harnett got into the business of teeth. Teeth they considered
Speaker 1: were just as profitable as whole corpses, if not more so,
Speaker 1: and the pair collected jaws from corpses. Many records suggest
Speaker 1: they traveled with the British Army and scavenged teeth from
Speaker 1: the bodies of dead soldiers. These records also suggests that
Speaker 1: the men's stole and sold things like buttons and epaulets
Speaker 1: from uniforms for pretty good money. Ben, having saved enough money,
Speaker 1: bought himself or possibly built or possibly invested in this
Speaker 1: is a bit fuzzy, a small seaside hotel in Market.
Speaker 1: But word of his former unpopular occupation as a resurrection
Speaker 1: man got out, and it didn't take long before his
Speaker 1: empty hotel failed broke. Ben fell back into the tooth trade,
Speaker 1: but things did not go as well this time around.
Speaker 1: Some of the records that came up in research suggests
Speaker 1: that Ben, in a pretty desperate situation, embezzled money from
Speaker 1: Jack Harnett and was imprisoned for a year as punishment.
Speaker 1: Ben did not die in jail, nor was he executed
Speaker 1: for any crime, but he did die in poverty and
Speaker 1: his body was found in the tap room of a
Speaker 1: pub near Tower Hill in London, and according to his legend,
Speaker 1: he was still sitting upright on his stool. So, Holly,
Speaker 1: this is our first season. In our first season, cocktail,
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? So I think this
Speaker 1: time around we're going to just call our cocktail segment
Speaker 1: embalming Fluid. It's pretty obvious and on the nose, but
Speaker 1: you know what, I like it, so we're doing it.
Speaker 1: It's better than mine. It was just tapped out. This
Speaker 1: one to start off with comes with a little bit
Speaker 1: of cocktail history because I felt like it would be
Speaker 1: a little remiss if we didn't kick this whole thing
Speaker 1: off with a commonly known cocktail, but our variation on it,
Speaker 1: and that's the Corpse reviveror. Hey, so you have almost
Speaker 1: certainly if you have gone out for drinks, ever seen
Speaker 1: a cocktail called the Corpse Revivor on a bar or
Speaker 1: a restaurant menu. It is not actually just one drink.
Speaker 1: It's an entire category of drinks. The idea of a
Speaker 1: corpse reviveror cocktail, which is like initially air of the Dog,
Speaker 1: hangover cure, like you feel like a corpse in the morning,
Speaker 1: Drink this and you will come back to life, dates
Speaker 1: back to the mid eighteen hundreds, so a little after
Speaker 1: these guys were working, but still historical and interesting. We
Speaker 1: don't know how many different versions of it there may
Speaker 1: have been. Initially, like I said, it is a category,
Speaker 1: so it may have been everybody had their own version.
Speaker 1: But the first one that we absolutely do know of
Speaker 1: in terms of what it contained, comes from the Gentleman's
Speaker 1: Table Guide, which was written in eighteen seventy one that
Speaker 1: called for Brandy Maraschino Liqueur and Boker's Bidders. That's not
Speaker 1: the more famous version because those and really if you
Speaker 1: were to go into a bar today and see one
Speaker 1: on a menu, it's probably based on one of these
Speaker 1: two were about to talk about, and they come from
Speaker 1: the Savoy Cocktail Book, which was written by Henry Cradock
Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty and cratic was the bartender at the
Speaker 1: Savoy hotel. He was also a bit of a wit,
Speaker 1: which is part of why I think his his version
Speaker 1: has called on Cradic included two different Corps Survivors in
Speaker 1: his book. They are known as number one and number two.
Speaker 1: Number one is a pretty simple drink. It's kognak, apple
Speaker 1: brandy and sweet vermouth. But number two is more of
Speaker 1: a jin sour recipe, and that's the one that really
Speaker 1: has become popular and probably is the one that you're
Speaker 1: getting if you order something in a bar that's just
Speaker 1: called a corpse revivor. So the recipe for Corpse Revivor
Speaker 1: number two includes the note that one will wake you
Speaker 1: back up after a night of drinking, and quote four
Speaker 1: of these taken in swift succession will un revived the
Speaker 1: corpse again. So if you drink too many, you're gonna
Speaker 1: sack out. So we're going to make a variation on
Speaker 1: Corpse Revivor number two today, and the main change that
Speaker 1: we're making to the recipe here is that we are
Speaker 1: subbing out. What is called for in the recipe is
Speaker 1: lillip blanc. That's a liqueur that was originally made using
Speaker 1: white Bordoux wine with orange peel liquor and quinine liquor,
Speaker 1: and we're going to add a component that you may
Speaker 1: alread you have on hand if you have followed along
Speaker 1: with our cocktails before, because I have used it in
Speaker 1: several So this is one ounce of gin, one ounce
Speaker 1: of lemon juice, one ounce of Quantroux or other orange liqueur.
Speaker 1: I actually used Grand Martinier, which is a little bit
Speaker 1: bitier and that was quite nice, and one ounce of
Speaker 1: Saint Germain. And that's the thing that we're subbing in
Speaker 1: for the lillip blong. And then, as with the original recipe,
Speaker 1: you're going to add this is a little bit of
Speaker 1: a choose your own adventure. A dash of absinthe is
Speaker 1: what's called for in the first one, and that makes
Speaker 1: it this interesting, very bity, citrusy drink with this like
Speaker 1: liquorice finish. But it is definitely a drink that um,
Speaker 1: that is a drink for drinkers, do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Like people that enjoy the taste of alcohol
Speaker 1: and like taking a sip and discerning what's in it.
Speaker 1: That's for them. And you'll just put those all in
Speaker 1: a shaker, shake it with ice, and then you pour
Speaker 1: it into a chilled glass. However, I was like, I know,
Speaker 1: not everyone is a drinker, and even people that like
Speaker 1: the taste of alcohol sometimes want something that doesn't taste
Speaker 1: that sharp. So I made a second version in which
Speaker 1: I got rid of the dash of absinthe and instead,
Speaker 1: because we already have all those beautiful citrus flavors, I
Speaker 1: subbed out a dash of hybiscus syrup that I see.
Speaker 1: I think I would like a one with absence, but
Speaker 1: I guarantee, Ma Maria, I have to try this one.
Speaker 1: It's so anything. I'm like, I gotta try it, like
Speaker 1: it's so yummy, and it changes the profile so drastically,
Speaker 1: even though you're only including literally like a fraction of
Speaker 1: a fraction of an ounce, but it completely shifts the
Speaker 1: entire thing and makes it feel very tropical and yummy.
Speaker 1: So if you are into sweeter drinks, go crazy. You
Speaker 1: could literally put in almost any syrup that you like,
Speaker 1: or a liqueur that goes with those orange and lemon flavors,
Speaker 1: and same thing, shake it in the shaker with ice
Speaker 1: board into a chilled glass. Holy Moses, delicious, just delicious, delicious.
Speaker 1: Plus I choose your an inventure drink, which are always
Speaker 1: my favorites that you do yes. Now, this one was
Speaker 1: a little bit tricky to think about how to do
Speaker 1: a mock tail around it because it's literally three different
Speaker 1: kinds of alcohol plus lemon juice and possibly a dash
Speaker 1: of another alcohol. But here is what I came up with,
Speaker 1: and it's quite good and it does have similar it's
Speaker 1: a little different, but it's still pretty similar in profile.
Speaker 1: So first you're gonna try to replicate a little bit
Speaker 1: that says your main flavor, which has notes of like
Speaker 1: peach and hair and a little bit of honeysuckle in it.
Speaker 1: So what we're gonna do to try to get a
Speaker 1: little bit of that flavor is you're going to brew
Speaker 1: a cup of peach tea. If you want to be fancy,
Speaker 1: I would do a little peach tea. And if you
Speaker 1: can get your hands on a pear tea or a
Speaker 1: honeysuckle tea, combine those and brew one cup together and
Speaker 1: you'll get a really nice thing. And then you want
Speaker 1: it cold, so let it soak in the fridge with
Speaker 1: some orange zest graded into it, because that's going to
Speaker 1: pick up what the quantrou would add to this drink.
Speaker 1: So once that's chilled, then it's like super easy. You
Speaker 1: just do two ounces of your prepared tea, two ounces
Speaker 1: of a tart lemonade you don't want it very sweet
Speaker 1: at all, and then splash in the syrup of your choice.
Speaker 1: So you can do a liquorice syrup if you want
Speaker 1: that absently flavor, or you can do a hibiscus syrup
Speaker 1: like I did with the magical variation. Because any syrup
Speaker 1: that you love testamount that is going to go with
Speaker 1: a citrus and a fruit flavor like that, you can
Speaker 1: try anything. I actually thought it might be fun with
Speaker 1: a Habba neuro syrup, but I haven't tried it, so
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't back that up with experience, but
Speaker 1: it could be fun. It could also be fun in
Speaker 1: the alcoholic version if you want to get a little
Speaker 1: if you want to really feel not the bite of
Speaker 1: absent bite. And that's another one we've talked many times
Speaker 1: about how to make like a flavored variation of simple syrup,
Speaker 1: but literally just like one part sugar, one part water,
Speaker 1: Throw in whatever you want to flavor it with, let
Speaker 1: it all simmer for just a bit so all the
Speaker 1: sugar dissolves, and then strain out whatever the other item is.
Speaker 1: Like you're sliced halapeno, or you can do it with ginger.
Speaker 1: A ginger syrup is so good. Just pull that right
Speaker 1: out and then you have a yummy flavored syrup. They
Speaker 1: don't last as long as the ones you would buy commercially.
Speaker 1: You gotta use that up within a couple of weeks usually,
Speaker 1: but you get some beautiful flavors. So that is our
Speaker 1: kickoff the corpse revivor Criminalia style. I didn't come up
Speaker 1: with a pithy name for that first drinking scene. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's our we'll call it like corpse reviveror number six
Speaker 1: sixty six or something. We'll come up with a better note. Yes,
Speaker 1: but since other people have made variations and they have
Speaker 1: added numbers to them, you'll see other numbers on menus time.
Speaker 1: I need to double check and see how many numbers
Speaker 1: are officially CO ten. But it's already taken, so we can.
Speaker 1: Actually that would be a good one. We can name
Speaker 1: it after one of the years involved, like in eighteen
Speaker 1: ten or something. If you make it, I hope you
Speaker 1: love it as much as I did, especially with that
Speaker 1: hybiscus syrup. And like I said, the mock tail is
Speaker 1: very refreshing and yummy. And complex flavors that kind of
Speaker 1: give you a nice little kick. The citrus is what
Speaker 1: wakes you up there. That's that's why it's reviving your
Speaker 1: corpse and also probably helping you if you have a hangover.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but we hope you are down for this
Speaker 1: entire season of corpse, theft and resurrection right digging up graves.
Speaker 1: It's grim and grizzly, but in a much more enjoyable
Speaker 1: way than people being persecuted for things that they didn't do.
Speaker 1: We will be right back here again next week, and
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