Banana Slush Punch

This is a delicious, refreshing non-alcoholic punch. It's wonderful on a very hot day. Its only disadvantage is that, as the recipe says, it has to be drunk fairly quickly, before the slush melts. So this isn't a recipe to use at a party where the punch may sit in the bowl for quite awhile.

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Yields: 2-4 punch bowls

Ingredients

• 4  cups sugar
• 6  cups water
• 1 (48 ounce) can  pineapple juice
• 5  ripe bananas
• 3 -4  lemons, juice of
• 4 (2 liter) bottles  Sprite (diet is ok)

Directions

1. Boil the sugar and water together for 5 minutes; cool.
2. Mash the bananas and add the pineapple and lemon juices.
3. Mix with the sugar water.
4. Place in freezer.
5. Can be frozen in 4 half-gallon milk cartons.
6. (Well-rinsed, of course) To serve, mash one container of slush with a potato masher in the punch bowl.
7. Pour one bottle of the Sprite over it and mix together.
8. Serve immediately—slush should not be allowed to melt completely.