Fruit Punch

Ingredients

• Two cups of sugar
• 1/2 cup of orange juice
• 1 cup of strawberry juice
• 1 cup of water
• 1 1/2 cup of lemon juice
• 1 cup of pineapple juice
• 1/2 cup of maraschino cherries

Method

1. 1

   Boil the sugar and water to a syrup and add the fruit juices.

2. 2

   Let stand 20 minutes; strain and chill; add the whole cherries.

3. 3

   Sweeten or weaken if necessary to taste and serve ice cold.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Henderson cook book (1914) by First Baptist Church (Henderson, N.C.). Ladies' Aid Society, page 72. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRUIT PUNCH. One ounce of Ceylon tea, 2 pounds sugar, 1 dozen lemons, 6 oranges, 1 pint grated pineapple, 1 teaspoon bitter almond extract, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 pint maraschino cherries, 3 bananas, 3 quarts apollinaris water. Put the tea in a pitcher and pour 1 quart boiling water, cover and let stand 20 160 BEVERAGES minutes, then strain. Grate the yellow rind of half of the lemons and oranges, add the gratings to the sugar, put sugar in tea and let boil in a saucepan 5 minutes. Strain into a stone jar and let stand all night. Next morning add the other ingredients with exception of the appollinaris water. When ready to serve turn into punch bowl over a good-size piece of ice and add apollinaris water. — Mrs. T. B. Manning. A MARASCHINO PUNCH. Boil together 1 quart of water, 1 pound of sugar for 5 min- utes; add the grated rind of 2 lemons and 4 oranges to the syrup. To this add 1 quart of cold water, 2 sliced tangerines, 1 sliced banana, ^ of a pineapple sliced fine, 30 malaga grapes cut in two and seeded, and 1 pint bottle of maraschino cherries with their liquor. Pour this mixture over a block of ice in the punch bowl or have a solid block of ice with a bowl- shaped hole in the center to use instead of punch bowl. — Mrs. J. E. Patterson. FRUIT PUNCH. Two cups of sugar, y% cup of orange juice, 1 cup of straw- berry juice, 1 cup of water, l^ cup of lemon juice, 1 cup of pineapple juice, i/o cup of maraschino cherries

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