Pink Rhubarb Punch/Spritzer
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
5 quarts
- Serves:
- 20
ingredients
- 8 cups fresh rhubarb or 8 cups frozen rhubarb, chopped*
- 8 cups water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon strawberry gelatin
- 3 cups water, boiling
- 1 cup pineapple juice
- 1⁄4 cup lemon juice (optional)
- 8 cups ginger ale (1 liter) or 8 cups lemon-lime flavored soda, chilled (1 liter)
directions
- In large pot, bring rhubarb and water to boil.
- Reduce and simmer for 20 minutes. Strain and reserve liquid.
- Discard pulp (or save for pie, bread, cookies, muffins -- etc.).
- Combine sugar and gelatin in rhubarb reserved liquid until sugar is dissolved.
- Add pineapple and lemon juice, mix well.
- Chill thoroughly. Just before serving, add soda and ice cubes.
- * For stronger rhubarb taste, add additional rhubarb and simmer for 40 minute.
- For individual servings, combine 1 cup of rhubarb 'juice' with 1 cup of soda.
- Can add vodka to taste make it an adult beverage spritzer.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
redredrobyn
Golden, 44
Avid gardener originally from California, have been living in Colorado since 2005. Currently living life and trying to fit in all the goodness around me! Hiker, biker, kayaker, scuba diver, skier, nature enthusiast. Wanting to catch it all on camera, but often miss those photo ops. Also a nursing student (graduate in May 2010), work as an EMT in a Denver ER and with the United States Air Force.