This is an oldie, but still good.  Great for camp outs and much cheaper for large groups than individual packets.  Keeps for years in a covered container.

Ingredients:

• 2 c Tang
• 3 c sugar (I use less – it is really sweet!)
• 1 pkg Wyler’s lemonade mix (1 qt)
• 1 c instant tea
• 1/2 c red hots
• 1 tsp ground cloves

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients
2. Use 2 – 3 heaping teaspoons per cup of water.

Serves:  ???

Source:   Lanora Kleerup

A good non-alcoholic punch that is not too sweet. (although it would not be all bad if you added some rum!)

Ingredients:

• 12 oz frozen orange juice concentrate
• 12 oz frozen lemonade concentrate
• 24 oz apricot nectar
• 36 oz pineapple juice

Directions:

1. Add water to frozen contrates as directed on cans.
2. Combine with apricot nectar and pineapple juice.
3. Chill.

Serves:  50 servings – 6 quarts

Source:  Sunset Cook Book

Peg Bracher claimed this is the perfect ending to a dinner party – dessert, coffee, after dinner drink.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz Irish whiskey
• 1 1/2 tsp sugar (white or brown)
• coffee
• whipped cream – thick but not stiff

Directions:

1. Put whiskey and sugar in warmed (with hot water) heat proof glass.
2. Fill 3/4 with hot coffee.
3. Stir.
4. Float whipped cream on top. (Tip – pour it over the back of a spoon)

Serves: 1

Source: Peg Bracher “I Hate to Cook Book”

It’s never a good idea nor a safe idea to drink and drive. But if you do, you’d better know your limits.  See Blood Alcohol  Percentages in Beverages  in the Miscellaneous Information category and the Drinks category.

A really good variation on traditional Mint Juleps.  Great for a crowd!

Ingredients:

• 6 oz can orange juice concentrate
• 3 cans (18 oz) water
• 6 oz lemon juice
• mint – a handful
• 1 c bourbon

Directions:

1. Combine everything but the bourbon in the blender.
2. Whorl until mint is chopped – coarsely.
3. Let it sit all day.
4. Ready to drink? Add bourbon.

Serves:  How much do you drink???  How big is your glass?

Source:  Gerrie Hastings Turner

It’s never a good idea nor a safe idea to drink and drive. But if you do, you’d better know your limits.  See Blood Alcohol  Percentages in Beverages  in the Miscellaneous Information category and the Drinks category.

You can’t say those soldiers didn’t know how to drink!

Ingredients:

• 2 qt rum
• 1 qt brandy
• 1 pt lemon juice
• 1 1/2 c tea
• 1 c sugar

Directions:

1. Mix.
2. Pour over a large block of ice AT LEAST 3 hours before drinking.  (You don’t want to see what happens if it is not somewhat diluted!)

Serves:  Makes 1 1/2 gal.

Source:  Major General James A Woodruff

Notes: According to  Wikipedia:

This most venerable of American flowing bowls is held to have been first concocted in 1732 at Philadelphia’s  fishing club, the “State in Schuylkill” also known as the “Fish House”.

A 1744 note by the secretary of an embassy of Virginia Commissioners contains what may be the earliest record of the punch. Meeting local notables at the “Schuylkill River” in Philadelphia, he described being served “a Bowl of fine Lemon Punch big enough to have Swimmed half a dozen of young Geese.”

America’s first president, “George Washington”, was known to be fond of a drink or two, and sometimes more. He indulged in thirteen toasts — one for each state — during a victory celebration at New York’s Fraunces Tavern, and it is said that after he partook of Fish House punch at Philadelphia’s State in Schuylkill, he couldn’t bring himself to make an entry in his diary for the following three days.

The in Schuylkill Fish House Punch is traditionally made in a large bowl that did double duty as aas a baptismal font for the citizens’ infant sons. “Its an ample space . . . . . would indeed admit of total immersion,” as one citizen noted.

The Fish House was an august gentlemen’s society devoted to escaping domestic tribulation, but also to cigars, whiskey, and the occasional fishing foray upon the “Chesapeake Bay” or upon the “Restigouche River” in Canada. Another version states that it was created in 1848 by Shippen Willing of Philadelphia, to celebrate the momentous occasion of women being allowed into the premises of the “Fish House” for the first time in order to enliven the annual Christmas party. It was supposed to be just “something to please the ladies’ palate but get them livelier than is their usual wont.”

It’s never a good idea nor a safe idea to drink and drive. But if you do, you’d better know your limits.  See Blood Alcohol  Percentages in Beverages  in the Miscellaneous Information category and the Drinks category.

Summer is coming!!!  Or, good for Christmas!!!  Or, it is just time for something special!!!!

Ingredients:

• 6 oz frozen limeade
• 6 oz rum
• 6 oz water
• 1 lime

Directions:

1. Fill blender half full with ice.
2. Add limeade, rum, water and juice from lime.
3. Frappé.

Serves:  5

Note: Make it with bourbon and lemonade and you have a Whisky Sour.

Source: JFK/BJK

It’s never a good idea nor a safe idea to drink and drive. But if you do, you’d better know your limits.  See Blood Alcohol  Percentages in Beverages  in the Miscellaneous Information category and the Drinks category.

A good EANAB (Equally Attractive Non-Alcohol Beverage) for those winter parties.

Ingredients:

• 1 qt cranberry (or cran-raspberry) juice cocktail
• 6 oz frozen lemonade concentrate
• 1 c grape juice
• 1 1/2 c water
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 10 whole cloves
• lemon slices

Directions:

1. Combine ingredients – except lemon slices.
2. Bring to a boil.
3. Reduce heat and simmer 10 minutes.
4. Remove spices and serve warm garnished with lemon slices.  Also good cold.

Serves: 8

Source:  Some magazine long ago.

Punches are a good way to cut down on the bar tending at a party.  Just be sure to let it ice for the two hours in the recipe – otherwise it is too strong and will considerably change your party!

Ingredients:

• 3/4 lb sugar (1 1/2 c)
• 1 qt lemon juice
• 2 qt Jamacian rum
• 1 qt brandy
• 4 oz peach brandy (1/2 c)
• 2 qt water
• 1 block ice

Directions:

1. Mix.
2. Let set over ice for 2 hours.

Serves:  About 30

Source:  Rich Baldwinson, Stanford