Christmas Punch
Recipe card is at the bottom
A Christmas and New Years punch that has been used every year in my family for as long as I can remember.
This comes from my dad’s mother. My mother wrote down what she could remember. My dad says that his mother would put a meringue of some sort on top. If you know what that is feel free to add it to your recipe.
I have my mother’s copy of the recipe in pictures below and have transcribed it beneath them.
Christmas Punch
Ingredients
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
4 cups bottled cranberry juice
1 1/2 cups lemon juice
2 cups orange juice
2 cups unsweetened pineapple juice
2 bottles ginger ale (1 1/2 liters)
Recipe
Combine sugar and water in a small saucepan.
Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar dissolves.
Cover and boil over low heat, without stirring, for about 5 minutes.
Add fruit juices; chill thoroughly.
Just before stirring, put ice in punch bowl.
Pour in fruit juice mixture.
Stir in ginger ale.
Yield
24-30 servings
