Category: Beverages

Hot Fruit Punch

1 cup sugar
2 cups water
1 1/2 cups pineapple juice
1 cup crushed pineapple
1 1/2 cups grapefruit juice
1 1/2 cups orange juice

Combine sugar, water, pineapple juice, and crushed pineapple and heat to boiling. Add grapefruit juice and orange juice and reheat; just enough to make it steaming hot not boiling. Serve immediately in mugs or glasses.

Makes about 2 quarts

Holly Frost

18 ounce grapefruit juice
18 ounces pineapple juice
2 cups cranberry juice
Juice of 6 lemons
Juice of 6 limes
2 1/2 quarts 7-Up® or Sprite® soda

Freeze pineapple, grapefruit, and cranberry juices in separate ice cube trays. Combine lemon and lime juices; tint slightly with green food coloring. Turn into ice cube tray and freeze. Use one of each of 4 cubes in a “low boy” glass. Fill with 7-Up or Sprite. Serve with green and red cherries.

Cranberry Grapefruit Punch

4 cups cranberries
4 cups water
3/4 cup sugar
juice of 5 lemons
2 cups grapefruit juice
2 1/2 cups pineapple juice
1 quart Claret wine or sparkling burgundy

Boil cranberries and water 10 minutes. Put cranberries through fine sieve. Add sugar to cranberry juice; dissolve well. Cool cranberry juice. Combine cranberry juice, lemon juice, grapefruit juice, and pineapple juice; mix well. Just before serving, pour over ice block in punch bowl and add wine.

Makes 4 quarts

Pineapple Fruit Flip

1 cup orange juice
1 orange rind
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups strong cold tea
20 ounces pineapple juice

Cut orange rind into thin strips. Boil orange juice, orange rind and sugar for five minutes. Let cool. All tea and pineapple juice. Serve over cubes of frozen ginger ale or ice. Makes 1 quart.

Hot Buttered Punch

3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon allspice
3/4 teaspoon cloves
4 cups water
2 pounds jellied cranberry sauce
1 quart unsweetened pineapple juice
1/4 cup butter

Mix brown sugar, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, cloves and 3 cups water in saucepan and bring to a boil. Add 1 cup water to cranberry sauce; beat with rotary beater until smooth. Add pineapple juice and cranberry mixture to hot syrup; heat to just below boiling. Serve hot with 1/2 teaspoon butter in each cup.

Makes 24 Servings

Honolulu Fizz

4/5 quart white wine
1 1/2 cups pineapple juice
1/4 cup apricot liqueur
7 ounces carbonated water
fresh pineapple spears

Combine wine, pineapple juice and apricot liqueur in a pitcher. Cover, and refrigerate for several hours. Just before serving, add carbonated water. Garnish each glass with 1 or 2 pineapple spears. Makes about 1 1/2 quarts.

Almond Punch

4 packages cherry Jello
3 cups sugar
4 cups hot water
6 packages strawberry Kool-Aid
40 ounces pineapple juice
1 bottle pure almond extract (small)
12 ounces frozen lemonade, plus water
12 bottles 7-Up

Dissolve Jello and sugar in hot water. Once dissolved add strawberry Kool-Aid, pineapple juice, pure almond extract, and lemonade. Mix ingredients well. Just before serving add 7-Up. Pour punch over block of ice in punch bowl.

Makes 60 Servings

Diamond Head Cooler

1 cup milk
1/4 cup pineapple juice
2 small ripe bananas, peeled and sliced
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/16 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
1 cup crushed or finely cracked ice

In an electric blender combine milk, pineapple juice, bananas, pure vanilla extract, nutmeg, ginger, and allspice; blend until smooth. Add crushed ice and blend at high speed until mixture is smooth and frothy. Pour mixture into tall 12 ounce glasses and serve at once.

Makes about 1 quart

Pineapple Cranberry Cooler

6 ounces rose
1/4 cup cranberry juice
3 tablespoons frozen pineapple juice, undiluted
ice cubes pineapple spear

In a cocktail shaker combine rose, cranberry juice, pineapple juice and ice cubes. Cover the container, shake the mixture well. Strain mixture into a tall glass over shaved ice. Garnish drink with a pineapple spear.

Makes 1 Serving

Banana Crush Punch

4 cups sugar
6 cups water
46 ounce pineapple juice
12 ounces frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
24 ounces frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
6 bananas, mashed
24 1/2 cups Lemon-Lime Soda such as Sprite® or 7-Up®

Dissolve sugar in water. Add juices and mashed bananas. Put through a food mill. Mix into a large punch bowl, and stir well. Makes 60 servings of Banana Crush Punch.