Jana Moses’ Hot Spiced Punch Mix

Combine & store in an air tight container:
1 pkg. (18 oz.) dry Tang
1 pkg. (4 scoops) powdered lemonade mix
3 cups sugar
2 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp cloves
To serve combine:
2-4 T. punch mix
1 C. hot water

Hot Spiced Cider

Combine in a large kettle:
8 C. apple cider
8 C. cranberry or orange juice
2 T. brown sugar
4 cinnamon sticks
8 whole allspice
8 whole cloves
1 orange, quartered
Heat to just below boiling, reduce to simmer and serve warm.

Mom’s Punches

Cranberry juice
Pineapple juice
7-up

Or

Limeade
Lime sherbet
Ginger ale

Or

Pineapple-grapefruit juice
Lemonade
7-up
Pineapple sherbet
Mashed bananas

Or

4 mashed bananas
1 box mashed strawberries or raspberries
½ C. sugar
Ginger ale
Pineapple sherbet

Or

Hawaiian punch
Pineapple sherbet
7 up or Ginger ale

Kerry Stenson’s Fire Cracker Punch

4 C. Cranberry juice
4 C. pineapple juice
1 ½ C. sugar
2 qts. Ginger ale
1 t. almond extract

Kerry Stenson’s Wedding Punch

Combine & Freeze:
1 6 oz. can limeade
7 cans water
1 C. sugar
Thaw a little and add to serve:
1 bottle of Sprite

Mary Jo Hodges’ Wedding Punch

Lemon Lime Crystal Light
Sprite, Squirt or 7-Up

Aunt Kathy’s Wedding Punch

Guava Juice
Squirt or Fresca

Aunt Carolyn’s Apricot Slush

Puree and fill a plastic one gallon ice cream container or Tupperware ½ full of:
fresh (or canned) apricots
Dissolve & add:
1 small orange jello
1 C. boiling water
Stir in:
2 pkg. powdered lemonade
2 C. sugar
Water to fill bucket
Mix & freeze till nearly solid.
Remove from freezer and beat with mixer to make it easier to scoop.
Serve with equal parts:
Cherry 7-up

Slush Punch

Combine & heat until dissolved:
4 C. sugar
6 C. water
Remove from heat & stir in:
3-4 mashed bananas
frozen raspberries (optional)
1 can crushed pineapple
12 oz. frozen lemonade
12 oz. frozen orange juice
Freeze 24 hours.
To serve combine:
1 part frozen mixture
1 part 7-up or ginger ale.

Orange Julius

Blend 30 seconds in blender:
½ c. water
½ C. milk
1/3 C. orange juice concentrate
¼ C. sugar
½ t. vanilla
1 egg
6-8 ice cubes

Raspberry Smoothie

Blend:
2 C. raspberries or strawberries
1 banana
1 C. lowfat vanilla yogurt
Lime juice (optional)

Matt’s Best Smoothie

Blend in blender:
Nectarine
Peach
Banana
Mandarin Orange Sherbet
Orange Juice
Ice

Lis’s Smoothie

Blend in a blender until smooth:
Handful of blueberries
Handful of chopped pineapple
Handful of strawberries, fresh or frozen
2 scoops vanilla ice cream
1 C. strawberry-orange-banana juice
Chopped ice

Basic Smoothie

Blend in blender:
1 C. fresh or frozen fruits
(Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries,bananas, fresh peaches, nectarines, etc.)
2 scoops frozen yogurt or sherbet
¾ C. juice
(orange, pineapple, lime
peach, etc.)
4-6 ice cubes