Recipe - Ginger Tropical Punch

1 One half cup Water
1 cup Sugar
2 tablespoon Ginger root, chopped
4 Whole cloves
1 Whole cinnamon stick
6 ounce Frozen orange juice
concentrate
One half cup Orange juice, freshly
squeezed
1 Whole orange, thinly cut or sliced up
1 Whole lemon, thinly cut or sliced up

In a medium saucepan combine water, sugar, gingerroot, cloves, and
cinnamon. Bring to boiling over medium heat, stirring constantly. Reduce
heat and simmer, incovered, for 5 minutes. Cool mixture; cover and let
steep in refrigerator for several hours. Meanwhile, prepare apple and
orange juices according to product instructions. In a large container
combine the apple juice, orange juice, and lemon juice. Cover and chill.
Strain steeped ginger mixtrue. In a punch bowl stir together the fruit
juices and ginger mixture. Reserve 8 lemon or orange slices. Foat remaining
fruit slices in the punch. Cut reserved fruit slices in half. Garnish each
cup with half a fruit slice and an orange curl (optional), if desired.

Recipe by: BH&G, May 1997 Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #665 by
"hurlbert@concentric.net" hurlbert@concentric.net on Jul 11, 1997