Autumn recipe: Spiced Autumn punch

spiced autumn punch

 

 

serves 16

ingredients:

• 2 oranges
• 8 whole cloves
• 1.5L (2 1/2 pints) apple juice
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 4 tablespoons honey
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• 500ml (17 fl oz.) pineapple juice

directions
prep: 20 minutes
cook:40 minutes
ready in: 1 hour

1. preheat oven to 180 C / gas mark 4. Stud the whole oranges with cloves and bake for 30 minutes
2. in a large saucepan, combine the apple juice and cinnamon stick. Bring to the boil and reduce heat to medium and simmer 5 minutes.
3. serve hot in a punch bowl with the 2 baked clove-studded oranges floating on top.

I love this quick and easy recipe that gets me into the autumn mood very quickly. Its so simple and quite fast to do and would be great for parties or even just in front of the fire on an autumn evening.

enjoy :-)

all rights and credit goes to the creator of this recipe.

Autumn posts

I will be posting only Autumn posts from the end of August onwards. Feel free to leave comments of suggestions for blog posts of you want anything in particular :-)