Too Hot to Hoot Punch
- Total Time
- 15 minutes, plus several hours' steeping
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Ingredients
- 9or so strawberries, plus 3 for garnish
- 1cup sugar
- 5elderberry tea bags, or 5 heaping teaspoons of loose elderberry tea (if you can't find elderberry, use any herbal berry tea)
- 9or so limes
- 12ounces bourbon
- 1tablespoon Angostura bitters
- Large chunk of ice, or ice mold
Nutritional analysis per serving (12 servings)
156 calories; 0 grams fat; 0 grams saturated fat; 0 grams trans fat; 0 grams monounsaturated fat; 0 grams polyunsaturated fat; 23 grams carbohydrates; 2 grams dietary fiber; 18 grams sugars; 0 grams protein; 1 milligram sodium
Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
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Preparation
- Step 1
Several hours ahead, prepare strawberry syrup and the elderberry tea. For the syrup, cut the green tops off the strawberries and discard. Dice the berries until you have 1 cup. Reserve extras for garnish. In a saucepan, add the berries along with 1 cup water and the sugar. Bring to a simmer, stirring, and continue simmering until the sugar dissolves. Allow syrup to cool.
- Step 2
Prepare the tea. Pour 12 ounces of hot water over the tea bags or the loose tea. Allow to steep until cool. Discard bags or strain loose tea.
- Step 3
Juice enough limes to produce 9 ounces of juice.
- Step 4
In a punch bowl stir together the lime juice, bourbon, bitters, 6 ounces cold water, the strawberry syrup and the tea. (If you have extra tea, juice and syrup, combine without bourbon for a pleasant soft drink for children.) Gently slide the ice, or an ice mold, into the bowl. Garnish with sliced strawberries. Serve in ceramic punch cups or glasses.
- To make an ice mold, fill a large mixing bowl with purified water and freeze. (Be certain the mold will fit comfortably in the punch bowl with the punch.) To remove ice from the mixing bowl, flip the bowl over. Keeping a hand over the ice, run warm water on back of the bowl until mold is free. Gently slide the ice into the punch.
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Comments
Use leftover tea to make ice mold. To make it pretty, use a bundt pan so it will form a large ring. Dilute the tea with filtered water to make the mold large enough.
if you want that clear look that you see in the picture, you have to strain the solids out and just use the uncooked strawberries as a garnish
Why not place the ice mold in the empty punch bowl and then carefully pour in the punch. Seems like this would be a lot simpler and less chance of making a mess, el.g. losing your grip on a big chunk of ice and dropping it into the punch....splash!!
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Why not place the ice mold in the empty punch bowl and then carefully pour in the punch. Seems like this would be a lot simpler and less chance of making a mess, el.g. losing your grip on a big chunk of ice and dropping it into the punch....splash!!
Do you strain the strawberry syrup?
if you want that clear look that you see in the picture, you have to strain the solids out and just use the uncooked strawberries as a garnish
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