Do you remember the days when the weather was hot but the house didn't have air-conditioning? The best way to cool down was to sit out on the porch with an icy cold drink, a hand fan, and hopefully a cooling breeze? These beverage recipes may take your memory back to those days!
Diary Free Recipes : Amazing Old Fashion Beverages
Diary Free Recipes : OLD FASHION FRUIT TEA
This is an old fashion tea recipe from my adopted home state of Texas and believe me, you would have needed a good cold tea here! We still do, in fact.
- 3 6-oz cans frozen orange juice, undiluted
- 2 6-oz cans frozen lemonade, undiluted
- 1 1-qt 14-oz can pineapple juice, undiluted
- 2 cups sugar
- several mint sprigs
- 16 tsp (heaping) tea
Place fruit juices in a large container. Combine sugar, 2 cups water, and mint sprigs; heat until sugar is dissolved. Remove mint; add to fruit juices. Prepare tea in boiling water; steep. Strain tea; add to juice mixture. Add water to make 2 gallons. Serve over ice.
Diary Free Recipes : PINEAPPLE PUNCH
I'm not sure who named this old punch. It is called pineapple punch yet it has equal amounts of pineapple juice, orange juice, and lemon juice. Have you ever thought about using jelly in your punch?
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup currant jelly
- 2 1/2 cups boiling water
- 3/4 cup pineapple juice
- 3/4 cup orange juice
- 3/4 cup lemon juice
- 1 1/2 cups ginger ale
Stir the sugar, jelly, and water until sugar and jelly are dissolved; cool. Add the pineapple juice, orange juice, and lemon juice. Pour the mixture over a block of ice in a punch bowl. Just before serving, add the ginger ale.
Yield: 12 servings
Diary Free Recipes : Amazing Old Fashion Beverages
Diary Free Recipes : YELLOW GOLD PUNCH
This recipe was used in Southern Indiana in the 1950s and 1960s when I was young. It was suggested as a punch recipe for bridal showers.
- 2 cups water
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 can apricots, drained
- 1 cup lemon juice
- 2 cups orange juice
- 2 bottles ginger ale
- 1 can pineapple juice (12-oz)
Combine the water and sugar and heat until dissolved. Chill. Drain the No. 2 size can apricots and put apricots through sieve. Add to the sugar syrup and juices and chill. Add ginger ale just before serving, in punch bowl, over ice.
Note: You notice there is no size of the bottles of ginger ale. In those days a bottle of a soda was a bottle of soda without all the different sizes and we hadn't heard of 2-liters!
Enjoy!
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