Mary Lou Gebhard - Pineapples, passion fruit and poi: recipes from Hawaii

Pour over ice; add ginger ale or 7-UP to fill 12 oz. highball glass. Garnish with lemon slice. By adding a scoop of passion fruit sherbet or pineapple or lemon sherbet, the drink becomes a delectable float. A pleasant punch can be made by increasing formula. Pour punch over cake of ice (or better, make punchbowl in cake of ice).

Add 1 pint of sherbet to each gallon of punch. Float a fresh gardenia in the bowl. To make a punchbowl from a cake of ice, set a bucket of boiling water on top of cake of ice and let it melt to the depth desired, then remove it. Be sure the ice is a solid, clear block. If it is spongy, the bowl will leak. To prevent such a catastrophe, a bowl could be set inside the ice.

GOLDEN PUNCH 6 cups pineapple juice 4 cups orange juice 6 small bottles 7-UP or ginger ale Orange slices Combine chilled pineapple and orange juices; pour over cake of ice in punchbowl. Add 7-UP. Garnish with orange slices. POINSETTIA PUNCH 15 to 20 sprigs fresh mint 2 quarts freshly brewed tea, cooled 1 can frozen grapefruit juice, undiluted 2 cups fresh orange juice 4 small bottles 7-UP or ginger ale 2 lemons, sliced thin 1 can pineapple tidbits Bruise half of the mint and pour tea over it. Add fruit juices and blend well. Chill. Chill.

Pour over cake of ice in punchbowl; add Ginger Ale or 7-UP. Add lemon slices. Decorate base of punchbowl with poinsettias, if available. Place a small sprig of fresh, unbruised mint atop each cup before serving. (Makes 24 servings) SPICED CIDER 1 gallon sweet cider 1 lbs. whole allspice 1 tsp. whole cloves tsp. salt Dash cayenne pepper Mix ingredients and boil for 15 minutes. Serve hot. Serve hot.

This smells so good even the elbow-benders will want some. (Makes 32 servings) PARTY PUNCH 4 tbsp. tea leaves (black) 3 large lemons 4 cups cold water 1 tsp. almond extract 1 can pineapple tidbits (frozen) 2 cups boiling water 2 cups sugar 1 tsp. vanilla extract 2 bottles (28 oz.) ginger ale Pour 2 cups of boiling water over 4 tbsp. black tea leaves; cover and steep for 10 minutes.

Wash lemons, extract juice; add sugar, water and lemon rinds and heat, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Strain tea and add. When mixture is cool, stir in vanilla and almond extract. Chill until serving time. Pour into punch bowl and add ginger ale. (Makes 30 servings) By permission of Hawaiian Visitors' Bureau PASSION FRUIT PUNCH 2 cans frozen passion fruit juice Juice of 4 oranges Juice of 2 lemons or limes 1 quart lime rickey, ginger ale, Collins mix or similar beverage. (Makes 30 servings) By permission of Hawaiian Visitors' Bureau PASSION FRUIT PUNCH 2 cans frozen passion fruit juice Juice of 4 oranges Juice of 2 lemons or limes 1 quart lime rickey, ginger ale, Collins mix or similar beverage.

Combine all ingredients and serve over cake of ice in punch bowl. Decorate with orange slices, pineapple tidbits and maraschino cherries. (Yield: 2 quarts)
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HINTS FOR MIXING DRINKS Be sure the measurements are accurate:

A professional-type shaker or electric blender should be used. Straining: Use bar strainer for drinks you shake. To pour drinks evenly, set glasses in a row; pour each drink half-way, then level them off a little at a time. Sugar: Unless recipe states otherwise, use dessert sugar because it dissolves easily in either hot or cold liquid. Never use powdered sugar in drinksit won't dissolve. Simple syrup, or sugar syrup, is sometimes called for.

It is a syrup made of equal parts of sugar and water. To chill glasses: For cocktails: Fill glass with cracked or shaved ice. Let stand for a minute, then empty and dry glass. For fancy drinks, such as mint juleps, store glasses in refrigerator, or bury in shaved ice. To frost rim, dampen with lemon slice and revolve in powdered sugar. strawberry freeze jigger light rum Dash of lime concentrate Stir, pour over cracked ice and add Collins Mix to fill highball glass. strawberry freeze jigger light rum Dash of lime concentrate Stir, pour over cracked ice and add Collins Mix to fill highball glass.

BAMBOO HUT 1 jigger vodka 1 tsp. lime concentrate cherry jigger brandy Shake well with cracked ice and serve in martini glass. BEACHBOY SCREWDRIVER 1 jigger vodka Pineapple juice Pour vodka over ice cubes in highball glass; fill with pineapple juice. Decorate with a maraschino cherry and a tidbit of mint-flavored pineapple on fancy toothpick. HAWAIIAN SUNSET 1 jigger Southern Comfort Juice of lemon or 1 lime 1 jigger cranberry juice Shake with cracked ice, or pour it over the rocks. A smooth drink with a potent punch, especially if you use the 100-proof Southern Comfort.

You'll agree this is real Comfort! WAIALALO: Laughing Water 1 jigger bourbon 1 dash syrup 1 dash Italian vermouth jigger French vermouth 1 dash crme de menthe (white) Shaved ice Shake well in cocktail shaker and strain into glass. Serve in cocktail glass. Decorate with fresh strawberry on spear of pineapple. After a sufficient number of these, wives have been known to laugh at their husbands' jokes. HALEAKALA SPECTER Atop Haleakala one may see himself reflected in the rainbow there. This phenomenon exists in only one other spot in the worldon the peak on Brocken in the Harz Mountains of Germany.