Hot Punch Food

HOT FRUIT PUNCH

Steps:

• Bring 1 cup water to a boil. Add tea bags; steep for 5 minutes. Discard tea bags. Stir in sugar until dissolved., In a Dutch oven, combine the remaining water, juices and tea; heat through. Serve warm.

HOT BUTTERED RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• Combine pineapple juice, water, cranberry sauce, rum, brown sugar, cloves, salt, nutmeg, and allspice in a slow cooker, breaking the cranberry sauce apart using a fork.
• Cook on Low for 3 to 4 hours.
• Ladle punch into mugs and add 1 cinnamon stick and about 1/2 teaspoon butter to each.

TOO HOT TO HOOT PUNCH

Steps:

• Several hours ahead, prepare strawberry syrup and the elderberry tea. For the syrup, cut the green tops off the strawberries and discard. Dice the berries until you have 1 cup. Reserve extras for garnish. In a saucepan, add the berries along with 1 cup water and the sugar. Bring to a simmer, stirring, and continue simmering until the sugar dissolves. Allow syrup to cool.
• Prepare the tea. Pour 12 ounces of hot water over the tea bags or the loose tea. Allow to steep until cool. Discard bags or strain loose tea.
• Juice enough limes to produce 9 ounces of juice.
• In a punch bowl stir together the lime juice, bourbon, bitters, 6 ounces cold water, the strawberry syrup and the tea. (If you have extra tea, juice and syrup, combine without bourbon for a pleasant soft drink for children.) Gently slide the ice, or an ice mold, into the bowl. Garnish with sliced strawberries. Serve in ceramic punch cups or glasses.

HOT RUM PUNCH

Steps:

• Using a vegetable peeler, remove the zest of 2 lemons and the tangerine in strips. Drop into a large heatproof bowl (or use a fireproof bowl if you plan to set the punch on fire) and combine with sugar. Muddle together with a muddler, pestle or the back of a wooden spoon. Let mixture sit for at least 3 hours to infuse (or infuse overnight).
• Halve the tangerine and squeeze juice into a measuring cup. Halve lemons and squeeze lemon juice into the measuring cup to make 3/4 cup juice in total. (Save any unsqueezed lemon halves for another purpose.)
• When ready to serve, bring 1 quart water to a boil. Pour rum and cognac into the bowl with the sugar and peels. If you want to flame the punch, do so now; see note below.
• Add reserved citrus juice and boiling water and stir well. Grate nutmeg over top of punch and ladle into glasses.

HOT APPLE PUNCH

Steps:

• Place the cinnamon sticks, cloves and allspice on a double thickness of cheesecloth; bring up the corners and tie with string to form a bag. Place in a large saucepan with apple juice (or place loose spices in pan and strain before serving). Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Remove spice bag. Serve punch hot in mugs. Garnish with cinnamon sticks if desired.

HOT PUNCH

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Serve hot.
• **Iput mine in the croc-pot and let everyone serve themselves.

RED HOT PUNCH

Steps:

• In a large pan place sugar, water, and candies. Heat until candies are melted. Set aside and cool.
• Mix together pineapple juice, lemonade, water, and ginger ale.
• Serve with ice immediately.

HOT PUNCH (PONCHE)

Steps:

• In a large pot, place the guava, pineapple, crabapples, raisins, prunes, sugarcane, apples, cinnamon, sugar and 8 cups water. Bring the mixture to a boil, and then lower the heat and simmer for 1 hour. Serve hot in a mug that has a shot of tequila in it.

HOT PUNCH: PONCHE

Steps:

• In a large pot, place the fruit, sugar, cinnamon, and 8 cups of water. Bring to a boil and lower heat and simmer for 1 hour. Serve hot in a mug that has a shot of tequila in it.

HOT CRANBERRY CIDER PUNCH

Steps:

• In large pan combine cranberry juice, cider, nectar, spices, orange and lemon peel.
• Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer, uncovered 20-30 minutes.
• Remove from heat, strain through a fine-mesh strainer lined with cheesecloth.
• Taste punch and sweeten accordingly. Apple Cider and Cranberry Juice vary greatly in sweetness - you may need no sugar, or you may need a little more than listed.
• Add rum and butter, stirring until butter melts. Or, if having a non-alcoholic alternative is desirable, hold off on adding the rum to the entire punch and add 1 to 2 tbsp of rum to each mug, then fill to the rim with hot punch.

HOT TEA PUNCH

Steps:

• Bring first 4 ingredients to boil in heavy large saucepan over high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Boil 6 minutes. Remove from heat. Add tea bags. Cover and let steep 10 minutes. Discard tea bags. Add orange and lemon juices to punch. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Rewarm before continuing.) Using slotted spoon, remove whole spices. Serve hot.

HOT SCOTCH PUNCH

Steps:

• Heat but do not boil the whisky.
• Pour the hot tea over the sugar and lemon and stir until all the sugar has dissolved.
• Add the hot (but not boiling) whisky and stir. Serve hot.

HOT CIDER PUNCH

Steps:

• Stir the apple juice, pineapple juice, and cranberry juice together with the brown sugar in a large pan. Place the cinnamon sticks, cloves, and ground allspice into a large teaball or cheesecloth bag. Place the spice bag into the pan with the juice mixture. Heat the juice mixture over medium-high heat about 10 minutes. Serve hot.

HOT CRANBERRY-ORANGE PUNCH

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients in a slow cooker.
• Cover and cook on LOW for 4-6 hours.
• Serve hot, straining out the spices.