Woodland Plantation Punch Food

POSSUM'S SOUTHERN COMFORT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease or spray a 13"x9" cake pan.
• Mix all ingredients thoroughly in good-sized bowl.
• Add batter into the pan.
• Bake at 350° for 75 minutes (cooking time will vary from oven to oven).
• Test with a toothpick poked in the center- if it comes out without batter clinging to it, it's done.
• Enjoy!

SOUTHERN COMFORT JAMBALAYA

Steps:

• In large pot, sauté sausage in oil until lightly browned.
• Remove sausage from pot and sauté chicken until cooked.
• Remove chicken and sauté bell peppers through garlic until tender.
• Add tomatoes (with liquid) through hot pepper sauce and cook 5 minutes.
• Stir in rice.
• Add chicken stock through worcestershire sauce; bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and add sausage,chicken and shrimp.
• Cook uncovered, stirring occasionally, 30-45 min until rice is done and shrimp is cooked. (If additional liquid is needed before rice is done, add a 50/50 mixture of water and Southern Comfort).

BLUEBERRY CORDIAL

Steps:

• In a large saucepan combine everything. Simmer over medium heat and stir with wooden spoon to dissolve the sugar. Mash the berries as they soften, with the spoon, or a potato masher. I tried an immersion blender which worked ok but the masher was the most effective.
• Once dissolved, let cool, then steep overnight in the refrigerator. This will get the max flavour from the berries.
• Next day, strain into a bottle (clean softdrink is perfect). I used a funnel with a wire mesh strainer over the top, and poured a little at a time. Squeeze the juice from the pulp through the strainer. Set pulp aside - delicious with icecream!
• To reconstitute to a delicious drink, try 1 part cordial to 5 or 6 parts water. This will depend on how sweet you like your drinks.
• KEEP IN REFRIGERATOR.
• It makes 1.75 litres which will creat about 12 litres of drink.

PLANTATION PUNCH

Steps:

• The night before serving, mix the orange, pineapple, lemon and lime juices with the sugar and grenadine to dissolve the sugar.
• Place half of the chopped pineapple cubes in a 6-cup round ring mold or fluted tube cake pan.
• Pour in about 5 cups of the punch.
• Freeze until the punch is solid, at least overnight.
• Separately cover the remaining punch and pineapple cubes and refrigerate.
• When ready to serve, stir together the remaining punch, pineapple cubes and the rum.
• Pour into a punch bowl.
• Dip the outside of the ring mold in a large bowl of warm water until the frozen punch ring loosens from the mold, about 10 seconds.
• Unmold the ice ring into the punch and serve immediately.

PLANTATION RIBS

Steps:

• Combine first 6 ingredients in a saucepan; bring mixture to a boil.
• Remove from heat, and set aside.
• Cut ribs into serving size pieces; place meaty side down in a large shallow baking pan.
• Bake uncovered, at 450 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Drain off excess drippings.
• Reduce heat to 350.
• Turn ribs over, and bake an additional 50-60 minutes.
• Brush ribs with sauce during the last 15 minutes of cooking.

PLANTATION COFFEE PUNCH

Steps:

• Combine first 3 ingredients in a punch bowl and stir until ice cream melts.
• Garnish with dollops of whipped cream and sprinkle with nutmeg, if desired.