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Fruit Punch (Juice from one can sliced)
Juice from one can sliced pineapple. Juice of two lemons and one orange; 1 cup of some available bitters, 3 pints carbonated water, and sweeten with grenadine syrup. Mix the fruit juices and syrup in a large glass pitcher, add water and ice, slices of lemon, sprigs of mint, cherries and cubes of pineapple. Serve very cold--when the frost is on the pitcher. Serves 16.
A pitcher punch built on canned pineapple juice, with one deliberately vague ingredient that decides how the whole thing tastes.
- "Some available bitters"This is genuinely ambiguous and worth deciding before you start. A cup of concentrated aromatic bitters such as Angostura would be overwhelming and strongly alcoholic; the phrasing more likely points to a bottled bitter mixer of the period, along the lines of bitter lemon or a bitter aperitif. Start with a tablespoon of concentrated bitters, or use a full cup only if you are working with a low-strength bitter soda.
- Juice from one canA standard can of sliced pineapple yields roughly 3/4 to 1 cup of juice. Bottled unsweetened pineapple juice at that volume is an even substitute, and canned rings still give you the cubes called for in the garnish.
- Grenadine as the sweetenerGrenadine here does the work of sugar syrup as well as colour. Modern grenadine is usually far sweeter and more artificial than the pomegranate syrup intended; add it a tablespoon at a time and taste, since the lemon and bitters are the only counterweight.
- Three pints of carbonated waterSix cups. Add it last and pour it down the side of the pitcher rather than stirring hard, or the punch goes flat before it reaches the glass.
- Ice and dilutionIce in the pitcher will thin the punch as it stands. Chill the juices and the soda water separately beforehand and use large cubes or a single block, which melt more slowly.
- YieldSixteen servings from the eight or nine cups of liquid this makes means punch cups of about 4 to 4 1/2 oz, not tumblers. Double it for a party where people are refilling.
- Garnish orderLemon slices, mint and cherries are structural here, not decoration. Bruise the mint lightly between your palms before it goes in so it perfumes the punch instead of just floating.