Friday, August 03, 2007

Cranberry Punch

1-1/2 cups sugar
3 cups boiling water
2 cups cranberry sauce (not whole berry)
1/2 cup lemon juice
2 quarts ginger ale
1/2 cup maraschino cherries, finely chopped.
1 box raspberry sherbert

Directions:
Dissolve sugar in boiling water; add cranberry sauce and stir until smooth. Add lemon juice. Strain through a fine sieve or cheesecloth, and chill. When ready to serve, pour over scoops of raspberry sherbert in punch bowl. Add ginger ale and chopped cherries. Serves about 25.

Another great Easy Recipe

Love At Home

There is beauty all around
When there's love at home.
There is joy in every sound
When there's love at home.

Roses bloom beneath our feet,
All the earth is a garden sweet,
Making life a bliss complete,
When there's love at home.

-- John Hugh McNaughton (1829-1891)