Description
Eight warm, nonalcoholic mugs of ginger-pear and apple fruit punch.
Ingredients
Scale
- 5 cups Unsweetened pear juice or nectar
- 3 cups Unsweetened apple juice
- 2 ounces Fresh ginger, thinly sliced
- 1 orange Orange
- 2 sticks Cinnamon sticks
- 4 cloves Whole cloves
- 2 tablespoons Fresh lemon juice
Instructions
- Combine 5 cups unsweetened pear juice or nectar and 3 cups unsweetened apple juice in a 3- to 4-quart saucepan. Add 2 oz thinly sliced fresh ginger, thin slices of one scrubbed orange, 2 cinnamon sticks and 4 whole cloves.
- Warm over medium heat just until steaming, then reduce to low and steep gently for approximately 25 minutes without a rolling boil. Taste partway through; ginger and clove strength will depend on slice thickness and juice brand.
- Remove from heat, stir in 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice and stand approximately 5 minutes. Strain out ginger, citrus and all whole spices, counting the cloves. Do not serve a cinnamon stick or clove in a child's mug.
- Ladle into eight heat-safe mugs, roughly 1 cup each before evaporation; measure the actual strained yield. Serve warm and document sweetness, ginger strength and final volume in a first trial.
Notes
Recipe-development draft; not kitchen-tested. Timing and yield are estimates. Nutrition has not been calculated.
Additional chilling, resting or cooling time: 5 minutes, included in the total.
Untested estimate: gentle 25-minute steep and five-minute stand/strain; no alcohol or carbonation.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Chilling, resting or cooling: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Category: Drinks
Nutrition
- Serving Size: Approximately 1 cup strained punch