Spiced Cranberry-Orange Punch Recipe
A festive alcohol-free punch: a quick cranberry syrup simmered with ginger, cinnamon, star anise and rosemary, lengthened with cranberry juice, orange juice and soda.
- Category: Mocktail
- Glass: Highball glass
- ABV: 0%
- Difficulty: Medium
- Alcohol-free: ✓
Ingredients
- Cranberries10 piece
- Sugar4 tsp
- Hot water30 ml (1 oz)
- Fresh ginger slices1 piece
- Cinnamon stick1 piece
- Star anise1 piece
- Rosemary sprig1 piece
- Cranberry juice30 ml (1 oz)
- Fresh orange juice30 ml (1 oz)
- Soda water170 ml (5.7 oz)
How to Make It
- Simmer the cranberries, sugar, water, ginger, cinnamon, star anise and rosemary in a small pan until the berries burst and the syrup turns red.
- Let it cool, then strain out the solids.
- Pour the syrup, cranberry juice and orange juice into a tall glass filled with ice.
- Top with soda water and stir gently.
- Garnish with a rosemary sprig and an orange slice; multiply everything by twelve for a punch bowl.
Garnish
Rosemary sprig and orange slice
The Story
A holiday-table punch in the American tradition of spiced cranberry drinks; it is normally made by the bowl, and the amounts here are scaled down to a single glass.
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