Never gin, but she made vodka in the bathtub for their speakeasy for Russian immigrants.
To get in to the speakeasy--or as they called it, the "spik-izzy"--you had to knock at the door and ask: "Shto Russkii pup skazal? Hah?"
Which translates as "What did the Russian Pope say? Hah?"
No one in the family could ever explain to me what that meant or who the "Russian Pope" was supposed to have been.
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