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CRANBERRY
CHERRY PUNCH |
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This festive alcoholic punch combines
a beautiful appearance with terrific knock your socks off flavor. This is
a very potent punch that is quite easy to guzzle, so warn your guests that
there is a generous amount of vodka "hiding" in this punch. Add
the cherries while they are still frozen helps keep the punch cold without
diluting it. The half frozen vodka soaked cherries are marvelous to eat as
well.
(Makes 18 1/2 cup servings)
4 cups - chilled cran-cherry juice
2 cups - chilled vodka
2 cups - chilled freshly squeezed orange juice
1/4 cup - chilled cherry liqueur
1/8 - teaspoon ground allspice
1/8 - teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
2 - thinly sliced lemons
16 ounces - frozen whole sweet cherries
Combine all of the ingredients in a large chilled punch bowl. Serve
immediately.
Preparation Time : 5 minutes
Cooking Time : None
Chilling Time : Ingredients need to be chilled
Total Time : 5 minutes
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This festive alcoholic punch combines
a beautiful appearance with terrific knock your socks off flavor. This is
a very potent punch that is quite easy to guzzle, so warn your guests that
there is a generous amount of vodka "hiding" in this punch. Add
the cherries while they are still frozen helps keep the punch cold without
diluting it. The half frozen vodka soaked cherries are marvelous to eat as
well.
4 cups - chilled cran-cherry juice
2 cups - chilled vodka
2 cups - chilled freshly squeezed orange juice
1/4 cup - chilled cherry liqueur
1/8 - teaspoon ground allspice
1/8 - teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
2 - thinly sliced lemons
16 ounces - frozen whole sweet cherries
Combine all of the ingredients in a large chilled punch bowl. Serve
immediately.
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| CRANBERRY
WINE |
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(Yield - 15 - 750 ml bottles or equiv.)
Equipment:
1 regular primary fermentor pail
1 11.5 L carboy
1 nylon straining bag
1 hydrometer
1 nylon spoon
1 pkg. sterilant
Ingredients:
8 lbs. Cranberries (fresh or frozen)
1 500 ml red grape concentrate
2 gal. + purified water
5 lbs. sugar
1 tsp. pectic enzyme
1 tsp. yeast energizer
2 crushed campden tablets
1 pkg. wine yeast (K1 - V1116)
Use ripe, sound fruit. Wash and place in dutch oven. Add purified
water to the cranberries and bring to a boil, only so as to pop the
berries. Cool completely.
Sterilize all equipment & utensils. Drain
well.
Place fruit and juice in bag and tie top. Place
in fermentor pail. Stir in all other ingredients EXCEPT yeast. Cover pail
with lid. After 24 hrs. add yeast. Cover. Stir daily and press pulp
lightly with spoon to aid extraction. When SG reaches 1.030 strain juice
from bag and remove from bag and remove from pail. Siphon wine off
sediment (rack) into carboy. Attach airlock & bung. Fermentation is
complete when SG reaches 1.000. Rack and top-up carboy. Reattach airlock
& bung. Leave in carboy approx. 1 month. Rack once again. Add wine
conditioner to taste if required, filter and bottle wine. Enjoy.
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KAHLUA
FROST |
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(6-8 servings)
9-12 oz. Kahlua liqueur
1/2 pint whipping cream
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup powdered sugar, sifted
1 quart rich chocolate ice cream
2 liters club soda
Cinnamon sticks
Whip cream until soft peaks form. Gradually add
powdered sugar and vanilla. Continue to beat until stiff peaks form.
Into the bottom of a stemmed glass (wine or water
goblet), put one jigger (1.5 oz) Kahlua. Add 1 heaping tablespoon whipped
cream. Add 2 tablespoons club soda; whisk together. Add one large scoop
ice cream. Fill glass to within 1/2-inch of the rim with additional club
soda. Cover top with whipped cream and add a cinnamon stick as a stirrer.
Quantities of ingredients will vary according to
glassware and personal taste.
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HOT
SPICED CIDER
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1 1/2 cup cranberry juice
2 qts. apple cider
4 cinnamon sticks
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 orange
Whole cloves
Add first 5 ingredients. Press whole cloves into
orange and float in liquid mixture. Warm in crockpot.
Variation: Spiced rum may be added to
taste.
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BEACHCOMBER
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2 ounces light rum
3/4 ounces Cointreau
1 1/2 tablespoons lime juice
2 dashes maraschino liqueur
1/2 cup crushed ice
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously. Strain
into a large cocktail glass or wineglass.
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LEMONADE
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4 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon superfine sugar
1 cup chilled club soda, or plain water
3 or 4 ice cubes
Combine lemon juice and sugar and stir until
sugar is dissolved. Add soda or water and stir. Put ice cubes in a tall
glass and pour lemonade over them.
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