Old Recipes

[starfire]

There is this banana punch recipe we want to use for my parents 50th anv. party in November. So my sister and I thought we better make this punch before November to tweak it if we need to. I told her I make it this week-end since I was off. Neither one of us have ever made this recipe but we have had the recipe for years. It is really good.

So, this recipe is old, it is from this lady that used to make it for all the church functions, many, many years ago. She is no longer here.

This recipe is gives the basic with no amounts, what size cans, 1 cup, 2 cups or anything. It says: pineapple juice, orange juice, and lemonade. Also 3-6 sprites. Of course the bananas, water and sugar.

I made it and my mother and I tasted it and it was just OK but it was just not right like we remember it.

We got to thinking, back when this lady used to make this punch they didn't have 2 liters, they only had 1 liters of coke, sprite, whatever. That is how old this recipe is. I put the whole 2 liter bottle Sprite in the punch. My mother is going to try to make it next going by what I did, but a little different and use 1/2 bottle of a 2-liter ginger ale.

I am going to take the rest of the left over punch to work Monday and let the girls I work with try it. lol

So, I said all this to say, old recipes, you might want to watch it when making the dish in case ingredients have changed over the years.

Good thing we are tweaking this recipe now. lol

[momo]

Good point.


I wonder if she might have spiked it too!

[starfire]

Naah, I don't think so she was an old saint.

[Deleted]

I dunno - did you see that clip from the Ellen show where she was talking to that old woman on the phone and the old lady said, "Now, I love Jesus...but I drink a little"

I laughed until I cried. It still makes me laugh just to think about it.

Did the punch turn out better after tweaking?

/Via

[bbird]

Starfire- That is the punch we use for bridal showers, baby showers, ect. Except we put in 2 liters of sprite (7up works too) and add scoops of vanilla icecream on the top to make it creamy. It is soooooo good. Everyone always asks how we made it, but it is just a old recipe that got handed down from Granny.

I made it last summer for my family because my husband and boys who are never invited to showers and parties like those that have the punch, and they loved it. I even had them drink it out of the punch bowl cups, lol. I have to admit men look funny drinking out of those little cups!

Oh, we also use a jello mold to freeze sprite so its in that funny shape to float in the punch bowl and look pretty and doesn't water down the punch because it is sprite.

[kyosa]

mljjranch said:

I made it last summer for my family because my husband and boys who are never invited to showers and parties like those that have the punch, and they loved it. I even had them drink it out of the punch bowl cups, lol. I have to admit men look funny drinking out of those little cups!

In case ya didn't know, men FEEL funny drinking out of those little cups!

[bbird]

kyosanim said:

mljjranch said:

I made it last summer for my family because my husband and boys who are never invited to showers and parties like those that have the punch, and they loved it. I even had them drink it out of the punch bowl cups, lol. I have to admit men look funny drinking out of those little cups!

In case ya didn't know, men FEEL funny drinking out of those little cups!

I probably should have got a picture while I could then! It was cute because they kept standing around the punch bowl asking for refills. I told them women can hold that same cup for an hour, taking sips and it would last them. I got one of those impressed looks that pretty much said they were in awe of women. (ok, that wasn't the look I got, but I like to pretend)