Frozen Punch

Ingredients

• 6 packages Kool-Aid (cherry, orange or whatever flavor you like)
• 2 cups dry Tang
• 5 cups sugar
• 2 cans pineapple juice (or 1 cup apricot nectar)
• 1 can (No. 2) chunk pineapple
• 1 jar maraschino cherries
• 11 quarts water (or 10 quarts water plus 1 pint soda pop)
• 2 quarts 7-Up, for serving

Steps

1. Mix everything except the 7-Up and freeze.
2. Stir now and then while it freezes so the fruit doesn’t settle to the bottom.
3. When serving, add 2 quarts of 7-Up.

Notes

Serves 75 and makes about 3 1/2 gallons plus 1 quart. The back of the card says 6-oz glasses, about 60 to the gallon, and that it could serve 100.

The card has a cost of \$10.00 written at the top, plus a few handwritten scale-up notes beside the ingredients (2 qt. and 1 gal. by the pineapple juice, 1 pt. and 1 qt. by the chunk pineapple, 1 pt. by the soda pop).

Photo: stock photo found online.

More than one card: another copy of this punch has “Imogene” written at the top, so the recipe likely came from Imogene, along with “very good” and “Serves 75” (shown with the cards below). It says the punch fills 4 1/2 half-gallon containers, with 2 quarts of 7-Up added later.

Two more copies of this punch turned up later in Rosie Lee’s box (shown with the cards below): one signed “Rosie Lee” and marked “Very good” and “Serves 75”, which says it makes 3 gallons, and a second card with “Imogene” at the top, also “Very good” and “Serves 75”, which says the 2 quarts of 7-Up can be added when it’s served. Both have the same ingredients as the card above.

Rosie Lee’s original recipe cards

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