Recipe - Claret Punch

2/3 cup Sugar
1 qt Water
1 pt Claret
2 Lemons ; juice of
Cracked ice
2 Sprigs mint
1 Orange
A few fresh strawberries; if
in season

Mrs. W. R. Babb

Claret was a very popular red wine in California at the turn of the
century, as it had been for several decades.

The term was used to cover any fullbodied red wine, and there were at
least seven local wineries producing claret in 1900. This recipe seems to
draw on the Mexican tradition of sangr=EDa.

Dissolve the sugar in the water; add claret, lemon juice, ice, and mint,
crushing the latter slightly to extract its fragrance. Slice the orange
thinly and add with the strawberries at the time of serving.

Posted to recipeludigest by LSHW shusky@erols.com on Feb 09, 1998