Cooking 101 » Easy Punches Recipes – Simple & Quick Methods for Cooking Punches http://cooking101.org An Online Guide To Quality Cooking Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:19:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to Make a Sherbet Punch http://cooking101.org/how-to-prepare-a-sherbet-punch/ http://cooking101.org/how-to-prepare-a-sherbet-punch/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:19:58 +0000 riztys http://cooking101.org/?p=1323 Sherbet punch is the perfect drink for any social occasion, formal or informal. This fantastic drink is also easy to make.

Ingredients:

  • Two 2 liter bottles of ginger ale, chilled
  • ½ gallon container of sherbet
  • Two quarts pineapple juice, chilled

Instructions:

  1. Place the punch bowl in the refrigerator and allow it to cool overnight. Take the punch bowl out of the refrigerator only minutes before you have to serve the sherbet punch.
  2. Pour chilled pineapple juice in the punch bowl. To this, add scoops of sherbet to the bowl.
  3. Now, pour chilled ginger ale in the bowl. You will see that the sherbet has started to melt. Gradually, the punch will acquire the color of the sherbet.

Your sherbet punch is now ready to be served.

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Ingredients:

  • Two lemons, sliced
  • Three oranges, sliced
  • One cup orange juice
  • One cup pineapple juice
  • One bottle red wine

Instructions:

  1. Take a block of ice and place it inside a punch bowl. Now pour the orange juice, pineapple juice, red wine along with the lemon and orange slices into the bowl.
  2. The wine punch is ready to be served.
]]> http://cooking101.org/how-to-make-wine-punch/feed/ 0 How to Make Mulled Cider http://cooking101.org/how-to-make-mulled-cider/ http://cooking101.org/how-to-make-mulled-cider/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:23 +0000 admin http://cooking101.org/?p=678 Mulled cider is a warm drink, and therefore, a winter must-have. Follow this easy recipe to prepare the drink and round off your holiday meal with this. Your family and guests will love it.

Ingredients:

  • One quart apple cider
  • ½ cup brandy (optional)
  • One cinnamon stick
  • Eight whole cloves
  • ½ cup dried cranberries
  • 2/3 cup honey
  • One orange
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions:

  1. Pour the apple cider in a saucepan and put the saucepan on low heat. With the help of a paring knife, cut the orange zest and remove the orange from inside. Do remember to remove the white pith from inside the orange.
  2. Now pound the zest to release its juice and place the zest with the cider. Also, add all the other ingredients such as brandy, cinnamon, cloves, cranberries, honey, and vanilla extract in the saucepan and cook it over low heat. Keep stirring occasionally.
  3. When the cider starts to give off steam, remove it from the gas stove. If you prefer any extra seasonings in your cider, you can add them now. Your hot mulled cider is ready to be served.
]]> http://cooking101.org/how-to-make-mulled-cider/feed/ 0 How to Make Party Punch http://cooking101.org/how-to-make-party-punch/ http://cooking101.org/how-to-make-party-punch/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 20:14:16 +0000 admin http://cooking101.org/?p=673 Follow this recipe to make a party punch, and your guests will simply love it. This bubbly concoction is really simple to prepare.

Ingredients:

  • Two cans frozen concentrated grape juice
  • One can frozen concentrated fruit punch
  • Eight liters lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage
  • Two lemons
  • ½ galleon raspberry sorbet

Instructions:

  1. First, cut the two lemons into tiny wedges so that they fit inside a cube of an ice tray. Place the wedges into the ice tray cubicles, pour water over them and place the tray inside the freezer.
  2. Now, thaw the frozen concentrated grape juice and the fruit punch. Mix them together. Once the two ingredients have been mixed together, place the mixture inside the refrigerator.
  3. Take about a third of the chilled mixed concentrate and mix it with soda. Make sure you pour the soda in slowly. Add in the cubes of frozen lemon wedges to the mixture. Add few scoops of the raspberry sorbet. Your party punch is ready to be served.
]]> http://cooking101.org/how-to-make-party-punch/feed/ 0 How to Make Wedding Punch http://cooking101.org/how-to-make-wedding-punch/ http://cooking101.org/how-to-make-wedding-punch/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 20:02:35 +0000 admin http://cooking101.org/?p=672 It may be called the ‘Wedding punch’, but do not go by its name. This punch is a hit, not just at weddings, but at every other social gathering too. Follow this recipe and have a merry time!

Ingredients:

  • One can frozen orange juice concentrate
  • One can sweetened pineapple juice
  • 1¾ cup lemon juice
  • Two cups white sugar
  • One galleon water

Instructions:

  1. Take a large punch bowl and add the orange juice concentrate and pineapple juice in it. Also add the lemon juice and the sugar. Now add water to this mixture.
  2. Stir the mixture well so that all the ingredients get blended in thoroughly. You can now serve your wedding punch.
]]> http://cooking101.org/how-to-make-wedding-punch/feed/ 0 How to Make Lemonade http://cooking101.org/how-to-make-lemonade/ http://cooking101.org/how-to-make-lemonade/#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 07:21:07 +0000 admin http://cooking101.org/?p=633 You may think making lemonade is real easy, but we’ll let you on a recipe that will make great squeeze lemonades. Just whip it up and breeze through those hot summer months.

Ingredients:

  • One cup sugar
  • One cup water
  • One cup lemon juice (from fresh squeezed lemons)
  • Three to Four cups cold water

Instructions:

  1. First, prepare the syrup by heating the sugar and water in a saucepan. The sugar should get completely dissolved in the water.
  2. Now, pour the sugar water solution in a pitcher and add the lemon juice in it. Also add three to four cups of cold water to the pitcher. Place the pitcher inside the refrigerator for about 40 minutes.
  3. Garnish the drink with lemon slices. Add some ice to the drink. You are ready to serve your lemonade.
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Ingredients:

  • One cup lime juice (from fresh squeezed lime)
  • 9½ cups of water
  • 1½ cups of granulated sugar

Instructions:

  1. The first thing to do while preparing the limeade is to make the sugar syrup. The ratio for the syrup is one and a half cups of water to one and a half cups of sugar.
  2. Once the sugar syrup is made, mix the syrup with the lime juice. This becomes the concentrate for the limeade.
  3. Now add water to the concentrate, depending upon how many glasses you want to serve. Place the drink inside the refrigerator for about an hour.
  4. Your limeade is now ready to be served.
]]> http://cooking101.org/how-to-make-limeade/feed/ 2 How to Make Cranberry Punch http://cooking101.org/how-to-make-cranberry-punch/ http://cooking101.org/how-to-make-cranberry-punch/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 06:05:45 +0000 admin http://cooking101.org/?p=625 Cranberry punch is a drink for all occasions. You can serve it at weddings, festivals, and even at barbecue. Make loads of it, and watch it disappear!

Ingredients:

  • 48 ounces cranberry juice
  • One can frozen orange juice concentrate
  • One can frozen lemonade concentrate
  • 32 ounces ginger ale
  • One cup sugar

Instructions:

  1. Mix together the cranberry juice, orange juice concentrate, lemonade concentrate, and sugar. Stir all the ingredients together so that the sugar gets dissolved completely.
  2. Now, add the ginger ale and water to the mixture. The water should be enough to make about one galleon of punch.
  3. Garnish the drink with cranberries and orange slices. Your cranberry punch is now ready to be served.
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Ingredients:

  • ½ cup white sugar
  • Two cups orange juice
  • 2/3 cup lemon juice
  • One jar maraschino cherries, with juice
  • One fluid ounce triple sec liqueur
  • One bottle light rum
  • One orange, sliced into rounds
  • One can pineapple chunks
  • One liter carbonated water
  • Ice

Instructions:

  1. In a punch bowl, add sugar, orange juice, and lemon juice. Stir it well. Keep stirring the mixture till all the sugar in it gets dissolved.
  2. When all the sugar gets dissolved, then add cherries, triple sec, light rum, orange slices, lemon slices, and pineapple chunks to the mixture. Now, refrigerate this mixture for about two hours.
  3. After two hours, remove the drink from the refrigerator and add carbonated water to it. Also, add ice to the drink. Your Christmas punch is ready to be served.
]]> http://cooking101.org/how-to-make-christmas-punch/feed/ 0 How to Make Champagne Punch http://cooking101.org/champagne-punch/ http://cooking101.org/champagne-punch/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 05:41:47 +0000 admin http://cooking101.org/?p=621 This punch has a fruity twist to it. You can play around with the ingredients, depending upon how you like your punch!

Ingredients:

  • Two bottle champagne, chilled
  • One can frozen cranberry juice concentrate
  • One can frozen pink lemonade concentrate
  • One can frozen limeade concentrate
  • One bottle white wine, chilled
  • One liter carbonated water, chilled
  • One lemon, sliced
  • f½ cup mint

Instructions:

  1. Take a large punch bowl. Add cranberry juice concentrate, pink lemonade concentrate, limeade concentrate, white wine, club soda, and the champagne in it together.
  2. Garnish the punch with lemon slices and mint leaves. Your champagne punch is ready to be served.
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