Silent Night Punch
Serves approximately 40
Ingredients
- 2 bags green tea
- peels of 8 lemons + 12 oz fresh-squeezed lemon juice
- 1¾ cups superfine sugar
- 750 ml (1 bottle) cognac
- 375 ml (1 bottle) dark rum
- 6 oz Green Chartreuse
- 6 oz Benedictine
- 2 cups water
- freshly grated nutmeg for garnish
Special Equipment
- punch bowl & glasses
- muddler
- citrus squeezer
- nutmeg grater
How-to
- Two days before the party, fill a metal bowl (sized to scale with the punch bowl) with water and stash it in the freezer
- A few hours prior to serving (or the night before the party), steep 2 green tea bags in 2 cups water for 5 minutes. Set aside to cool
- Peel 8 lemons. In a large bowl, muddle peels in sugar until the oils are absorbed
- Add tea, cognac, dark rum, Green Chartreuse and Benedictine. Stir until sugar is dissolved and refrigerate mixture
- Within a few hours of serving, add 12 oz fresh-squeezed lemon juice and 2 cups of cold water to the liquor-sugar-tea mixture
- Add a block of ice to the punch bowl and serve in punch glasses with a little fresh nutmeg grated over the top