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Subject: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Jan 02 - 04:39 PM Well, my wedding starts in 48.5 hours, and I've got a big problem. I'm supposed to come up with a recipe for punch to serve 200 people. This is an organic, non-alcoholic, Polish wedding, so we have 48 bottles of sparkling cider for the toast - but that's not enough to accompany the entire meal and whatnot. I think I saw a punch that consisted of pouring 7-Up over a chunk of sherbet. If I can't come up with something else, I'm going to jazz that up by adding partly-thawed frozen strawberries. It would be nice to have options. Anybody got suggestions? Please make it easy-to-make and non-alcoholic. Thanks. -Joe Bridegroom- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Sorcha Date: 10 Jan 02 - 04:42 PM Hang loose, Joe. What color? Does it matter? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: MMario Date: 10 Jan 02 - 04:46 PM 1 can frozen cranberry cocktail 1 can frozen OJ (no pulp) dilute with 4 qts of ginger ale add scoops of orange or lemon sherbert. (use about a pint total) This makes about a gallon - which I believe is supposed to allow about 25 portions. So you'd need 8 times the amount. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: SharonA Date: 10 Jan 02 - 04:46 PM Cranberry juice and seltzer (or 7-Up, depending on your taste). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Sorcha Date: 10 Jan 02 - 04:48 PM OK, pick one---CranApple punch, Tahitian Punch (pineapple based), Sparkling Cranberry, Fruit Glow (orange juice based)Pinapple Punch, Fruit punch, Strawberry Fruit punch. Looks like red, yellow and orange are your choices. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: MMario Date: 10 Jan 02 - 04:51 PM well - if you use granny smith apple juice and lime sherbert with mountain dew you can get a sick green-ish punch - but I don't think you want to. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 10 Jan 02 - 04:51 PM If you use the sherbet idea...don't do what I did and crack the punch bowl. Don't let the sherbet sit in the punch bowl long enough to chill it and then pour hot 7-up or ginger ale over it. The rapid change in temp will crack it. You can use all kinds of ideas for sherbet, 7-up, ginger ale, frozen fruit. It's nice to have an extra frozen fruit juice ring to add when the mixture starts getting warm.
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: MMario Date: 10 Jan 02 - 04:54 PM Most punch bowls I've seen and used hold about 25 portions (some less) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Sorcha Date: 10 Jan 02 - 04:54 PM You just make it all up and store it in the fridge. Keep re filling the punch bowl. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 10 Jan 02 - 04:55 PM generic recipe |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Willa Date: 10 Jan 02 - 04:55 PM Hi, joe. I found a good recipe for my Christmas party using a google search (punch recipes). Plenty to choose from. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Kim C Date: 10 Jan 02 - 05:10 PM Joe, just about any combination of tasty fruit juices and club soda or ginger ale will do the trick. Sherbet is optional. Since you have to serve so many, you might try a couple of different kinds. Ocean Spray makes some great flavor combinations and if you have a Sam's or a Costco near you, you can probably get them (and other juices, and the carbonated stuff) in bulk and save a little money. Good Luck and Congratulations! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: catspaw49 Date: 10 Jan 02 - 05:13 PM Got it Joe? And you can use the ice cubes carol put down your pants!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: artbrooks Date: 10 Jan 02 - 05:23 PM And besides, who ever heard of a non-alcoholic Polish wedding? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Jan 02 - 05:41 PM Yeah, I know, Art - it kind of disappoints me, too. No polkas, either. What can I say? My bride-to-be has lived in Northern California for almost twenty years, and she's turned organic. I may have to sneak back home to Milwaukee for polkas, beer, and kielbasa. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: SharonA Date: 10 Jan 02 - 05:47 PM Whatever you do, don't use a caffeinated beverage such as Mountain Dew. Some unsuspecting folks who can't tolerate caffeine might have to be taken to the hospital (not a happy end to a reception!). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Jeri Date: 10 Jan 02 - 05:55 PM There was something in Korea called an "Ammo Bowl," but I guess soju isn't allowed. Also, for military ceremonies, they'd make a gross looking substance (try cola for a brown color) they called "grog," put it in a clean toilet bowl and float a few milk duds, and...whoops, sorry - totally inappropriate! I personally like the cranberry-ginger ale variety (without the OJ), since it isn't quite as sweet as other recipies. Joe, we expect you to have a laptop hooked up at the wedding |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Molly Malone Date: 10 Jan 02 - 05:55 PM What about a hot punch as well, like wassil? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Sorcha Date: 10 Jan 02 - 06:22 PM Sooooooooo, Joe, which one are you going to use? Do I need to post one/some from my list? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: wysiwyg Date: 10 Jan 02 - 06:38 PM If you go with sherbet, have several containers of it. It gets ugly after awhile and needs to be fished out and replaced with a new chunk. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Hollowfox Date: 10 Jan 02 - 06:46 PM The juice ring needs to be put in the freezer now, if you're going to have one. I recommend them; unlike sherbet, they keep the punch colder for a longer time, and the punch doesn't get that furry, scungy look as the ring melts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: GUEST Date: 10 Jan 02 - 06:50 PM Joe, I've attended quite a few Polish weddings in my day but somehow the term non-alcoholic never came up. Does the word zbrovka have any meaning for you? As far as I know, any Eastern European (Polish, Czech, Russian) occasion requires at least three meats, including the home made saugage, and a bottle of whisky and a bottle of vodka on each table. Not even tea-totalers may refuse a shot or two at a Polish wedding. <g> Of this would be my recipe for punch but multiply everything times three or four hundred and serve out of large bowls. All best to you and your bride. When you hear everyone clinking their glasses, imagine you're hearing mine as well. - Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Noreen Date: 10 Jan 02 - 07:04 PM Can you explain what you mean by sherbet, please? Over here sherbet is a fizzy, acidic sugar powder that you dip liquorice sticks in... can't imagine making punch with it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Sorcha Date: 10 Jan 02 - 07:33 PM Aka sorbet......a frozen, fruit based dairy free dessert. Uses water instead of milk. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Noreen Date: 10 Jan 02 - 07:38 PM Ah... thanks, Sorch. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Peg Date: 10 Jan 02 - 08:48 PM Grape Juice, dry grape ginger ale (Schweppes makes it I think), Rasberry/orange juice (Raspbery Dream) from Fresh Samantha. yum |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Jan 02 - 09:16 PM OK, here's what I ended up with, for 200 people:
I hope that takes care of it all. I've cooked cioppino and crab and pasta dinners for groups of up to 450 people, but this is the biggest potluck I've ever heard of. Thanks for all the advice, gang. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Sorcha Date: 11 Jan 02 - 10:33 AM Bartenders?? At a non alcoholic wedding? Oxymoron? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Kim C Date: 11 Jan 02 - 10:41 AM Sherbet and sorbet are not the same! (I learned this from my stint in the ice cream bidness many years ago.) Sherbet, as we know it here in the US, has a very small amount of milkfat in it, which keeps it soft and creamy (and makes that fuzzy scum in the punch bowl when it melts). Sorbet is fruit juice, sugar and water, no dairy atall, which is why it's usually hard as a rock and impossible to scoop. Unless you buy Edy's. :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: MMario Date: 11 Jan 02 - 10:41 AM nope - a "bar" doesn't have to even be liquid refreshment. if you have an attendent at a salad bar - they are a "bartender" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Kim C Date: 11 Jan 02 - 03:11 PM what about a chocolate bar? ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: MMario Date: 11 Jan 02 - 03:46 PM This page has definitions for sherbert which illustrate how a common language really does divide us! Three definitions - one for the US, one for Australia and one they label as "British". Also a discussion of the origin and the relationship to "sorbet" - but they don't tell us how the Australians derived their meaning! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Steve in Idaho Date: 11 Jan 02 - 05:44 PM Hey Joe - basking in sun, new love, and spring?? How about a nice Hawaiian Punch!!! The very best to you and yours on this your day to be - - - - Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: Mudlark Date: 11 Jan 02 - 09:29 PM Joe...First off, congratulations...have a fantastic wedding! As to the punch, you've received lots of good recipes...but to me the addition of sherbet to punch for adults makes it too sickly sweet (and doesn't do much for it asthetically, either). Sorbet is a better choice but too expensive for 200 people! If you use something like cranberry as a base, which is refreshing without being sticky sweet, and add a combo of sparkling water and ginger ale it will be pretty and go with everything. Just my 2 cents. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Emergency: Joe Needs Punch Recipe From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 12 Jan 02 - 01:35 AM Cheap but tasty punch Serves 120
80 teabags or equivalent (one pound) boil in 5 gallons water 5 minutes. Add five pounds sugar. cool
Add two cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
Add two gallons ginger ale
Ice
Garnish with lemon/lime slices.
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