Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The evolution of holiday punch

Posted by Jonathan Bender on Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:00 PM

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​We've all come a long way from grain alcohol and fruit juice, but the big bowl of holiday punch hasn't been updated accordingly -- until now.

While tracing the history of the classic party drink, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer makes the case that punch will be coming back to high-end bars. The article also offers a compendium of punch recipes with champagne, rum, vodka, Irish whiskey and berry liqueur as a base.
 

Tangerines are currently in season and a holiday punch with that flavor should be spot-on. The San Francisco Chronicle has a recipe for a Tangerine Kiss punch; it uses citrus vodka, campari and a lot of tangerine juice to make what sounds like a light, pleasing cocktail.

Unless you're making wassail, you should keep your punch on ice. Cubes melt too fast, though, so the Kitchn has a simple hack for using Tupperware as ice cube trays. You can even add fruit or flavoring to your ice blocks. And like an iceberg, the larger blocks will melt more slowly over time, leading your punch to remain as you intended it to be.

And finally, a non-drink recommendation. MyPunchbowl is an online invitation service that you should be using instead of Evite. With the Potluck feature, you can ask guests to bring food and show who is bringing what, as well as set it up to allow people to weigh in on the kind of punch they'd want to drink.  

[Image via Flickr: slushpup]

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