Christmas Eve Punch Recipes

CHRISTMAS PUNCH

Steps:

• In a punch bowl, combine sugar, orange juice, and lemon juice. Stir until sugar dissolves. Add cherries, triple sec, light rum, orange slices, lemon slices, and pineapple chunks. Refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours to allow flavors to blend.
• Pour in carbonated water, and add ice just before serving.

ENGLISH CHRISTMAS PUNCH

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Heat, but do not allow to boil, all of the ingredients in a saucepan or chafing dish.
• Stir well until all of the sugar is dissolved.
• Pour the heated mix into a heat-proof punch bowl and add seasonal fruits like orange slices and cranberries.
• Serve warm.
• Heat, but do not allow to boil, the wine, tea, and lemon and orange juices in a saucepan or chafing dish.
• Pour the heated mix into a heat-proof punch bowl.
• Place as much sugar as possible into a large ladle and any excess sugar into the punch bowl.
• Saturate the sugar in the ladle with rum.
• Ignite the rum and sugar in the ladle and pour it into the bowl while still aflame.
• Stir well and extinguish the flames.
• Pour the remainder of the rum into the punch.
• Stir well, ensuring the sugar is completely dissolved, and then add the fruit.
• Serve warm.

CHRISTMAS EVE PUNCH

Steps:

• Combine first 6 ingredients; chill.
• To serve, add ginger ale, stirring well.

CHRISTMAS EVE PEPPERMINT PUNCH

Steps:

• Put first 3 ingredients in punch bowl.
• Top with cream, then candy, and serve.

CHRISTMAS PUNCH

Steps:

• Combine pomegranate and cranberry juice, vodka, Cointreau, club soda, lemon juice, and simple syrup in a punch bowl. Fill glasses with cranberries frozen in ice cubes, and serve.