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Show 7 fTEA MUff L9VERS Easy Ways To A Perfect Punch On the "refreshment committee" for a shower, graduation party, or family reunion? One part of the menu that stumps many people is the punch: what flavor to make, how much to make and how to keep it cold. Here, from the home economists of The Lipton Kitchens, are some tips on perfect punches: First, think of tea as a natural flavor base for punches. It adds body and a delicious background flavor and, if you use 100 instant in-stant tea, it's easy to use an 1 economical, too. At v out 8t per quart, Lipton iistant Tea can add a low-cost low-cost "punch " to your punch ! Adding soda, sparkling wine, or champagne to your punch? Always add it well-chilled well-chilled and at the last moment mo-ment to preserve the effervescence. effer-vescence. And, to avoid excess ex-cess foaming, pour it slowly slow-ly and gently down the side of the punch bowl. To keep the punch well-chilled, well-chilled, either add ice cubes to the individual servings or use an ice mold in the punch bowl. Any metal bowl or gelatine mold can be used to make the ice mold just fill with water, iced tea or one of the fruit juices you're using in the punch. For a special touch, you can freeze mint leaves, berries or slices of citrus fruit in the ice cubes or mold. Just follow these steps: Fill the mold or ice tray one-third full and freeze until un-til partially frozen; arrange the garnish on the ice and freeze again until the gar nish is fixed in place; gently gent-ly fill with liquid and freeze until solid. ' I t: ..:; i Punches are generally served in 5-ounce cups, and it's recommended that you plan on at least 2 servings serv-ings per guest. If you try the following punch recipe, though, you may want to make extra.. .it's so delicious de-licious your guests will want plenty! PARTY-TIME PUNCH 12 cup Lipton 100 Instant Tea powder 1 quart cranberry juice cocktail cock-tail 1 quart water 2 cans (6 oz. ea.) frozen orange juice concentrate 1 can (6 oz.) frozen lemonade lemon-ade concentrate 1 bottle (45 qt.)champagne or (28 oz.) ginger ale, chilled In punch bowl, combine instant tea powder, cranberry cran-berry juice, water, orange juice and lemonade concentrates; concen-trates; chill. Just before serving, add champagne. Garnish, if desired, with orange slices; serve with ice. Makes about 20 (5 oz.) servings, "When fools have nothing to talk about they talk about the weather." German proverb |
