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Punch: Witches' Brew




Source of Recipe


GOURMET - October 1995


List of Ingredients




For spice syrup:
2 cinnamon sticks
5 whole cloves
3 tablespoons finely chopped peeled fresh ginger
1/3 cup water
1/3 cup sugar

A chilled 25.4-ounce bottle sparkling cider (about 3 1/4 cups)
A chilled 1-quart bottle cranberry juice cocktail
A chilled 1-liter bottle club soda or seltzer water
1 cup dark rum if desired

For serving: Ice blocks in any shape*

*Ice blocks for punch can take any form you wish. Try rinsing out surgical gloves and filling them with water, tying them closed. After freezing the "water balloons" on a baking sheet, the gloves peel off easily and make icy hands to chill our Witches' Brew.



Recipe



Make spice syrup:
In a small saucepan bring syrup ingredients to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved, and simmer, covered, 5 minutes. Cool syrup. Syrup may be made 1 week ahead and chilled, covered.

In a punch bowl combine remaining ingredients and strain syrup through a fine sieve into punch. Stir punch and add ice blocks.

Makes about 13 cups.