Recipe time!

[highlyeccentric]

Great-Grandmother's Punch

This was my great-grandmother's punch recipe. It is, without a doubt, the best punch ever.

Ingredients
1 and 1/2 cups of cold black tea
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice
Approx. 1 litre of pine orange juice or similar juice
1 bottle of lemonade
1 bottle of ginger ale
1 tin of fruit salad

Pour the ingredients in italics into a saucepan, mix well and bring to boil.
Pour this into the bottom of the punch bowl. Add all the ingredients not in italics. Feel smug.

If you are too lazy to do the boiling business, I found it worked fine if you omit the sugar and lemon juice and just tip cold tea in.

Comments

[fahye.livejournal.com]

...and then you add white rum, right? (Eyeballing the recipe, I would say coconut rum would go nicely.)

WHAT ME ALCOHOLIC NO.

[strippedbare.livejournal.com]

My mum used to make her punch just using the ingredients that weren't in italics ... I know it was from a really old recipe book (perhaps a bunch of clippings from her own mother?) and now I'm wondering if perhaps the top half of the recipe was missing or something!

[anachronisma.livejournal.com]

But tea is icky...