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Merry Sunrise

3 ounces Sunny Delight
3 ounces Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice
Splash of 7-Up
Garnish: orange slice or cherry

1. Pour ice into a double old-fashioned glass.
2. Add equal parts of Sunny Delight and Cranberry Juice.
3. Top off with a splash of 7-Up and garnish with an orange slice or cherry.

Source: Micheyl Hiller, listener of 96.9 The Eagle, Sacramento, CA

Warm Orchard Wassail

1 64 ounce bottle Ocean Spray 100% Premium Juice Blend of Cranberry and Granny Smith Apples
1/4 cup sugar
2 - 3 inch cinnamon sticks
1 teaspoon whole allspice
Garnish: orange slices and clover

1. Mix all ingredients (except garnish) into saucepan
2. Bring to a boil, then simmer 5-10 minutes.
3. Strain heated punch into punch bowl.
4. Garnish with orange slices and clover.

Source: Virginia Rich, listener of KRXQ 98 Rock, Sacramento, CA

Pomegranate Paradise

4-5 ounces chilled ginger ale or ginger beer (see cook's notes)
1/2 ounce grenadine or pomegranate syrup (non-alcoholic - see cook's notes)
Cracked ice
Optional garnish: 5-7 pomegranate seeds

1. Combine ingredients (except garnish) in glass measuring cup.
2. Stir to combine.
3. Strain into chilled martini glass.
4. If desired, garnish with pomegranate seeds.
5. Serve immediately. 

Cook's notes: I like to use ginger ale with attitude, such as Vernors or Stewart's Ginger Beer, but any ginger ale will work.  Grenadine is pomegranate syrup.  Make sure you use one that doesn't contain alcohol.  Pomegranate syrup is sold in Eastern Mediterranean markets.

South Sea Cooler

3 ounces orange juice
1/2 ounce undiluted grapefruit concentrate
1 ounce coconut cream
1 ounce half-and-half
About 3/4 cracked ice.

1. Place all ingredients in shaker
2. Shake vigorously.
3. Pour into tall, chilled glass.

Bloody Orange

3 ounces blood orange juice (see cook's notes)
3 ounces raspberry seltzer or lemon-line soda
Ice
Garnish: Slice of blood orange.

1. Place orange juice and seltzer (or lemon-lime soda) in tall, thin glass.
2. Gently stir.
3. Fill with ice.
4. Garnish with thin slice of blood orange.

Cook's notes: Blood oranges have red-streaked flesh.  The juice is almost as red as tomato juice.

Source: Orange County Register, Food Section, Nov. 26, 2000

Cranberry Royales

6 tablespoons frozen cranberry juice cocktail concentrate, thawed, divided use
6 teaspoons frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed, divided use
1 bottle de-alcoholized sparkling wine

Garnish: 12 whole fresh cranberries
6 orange slices, folded in half
6 bamboo skewers

1. Place 1 tablespoon cranberry concentrate and 1 teaspoon frozen orange juice concentrate into each of 6 champagne flutes.
2. Top with sparkling wine.
3. Gently stir.
4. Thread 1 cranberry, 1 orange slice and another cranberry onto each skewer.
5. Place a skewer on top of each glass.
6. Recipe makes 6 servings.

Source: Orange County Register, Food Section, Nov. 26, 2000

White Zin Raspberry Fooler

4 ounces alcohol-free white zinfandel (see cook's notes)
1/2 ounce pureed and strained raspberries (see cook's notes)
2-1/2 ounces lemon-lime soda
1/2 ounce grenadine (see cook's notes)
1 teaspoon sugar
Cracked ice.

1. Put all ingredients in tall glass.
2. Stir to combine.

Cook's notes: Most "alcohol-free" wine contains less that 1/2 of 1 percent alcohol by volume.  It is often labels "de-alcoholized."  To make raspberry puree, process frozen (thawed) or fresh raspberries until pureed, then strain to remove seeds.  Grenadine is pomegranate syrup.  Make sure you use one that doesn't contain alcohol.

Cider Sparkler

1 small sugar cube
Several drops angostura bitters
Sparkling non-alcoholic apple cider, chilled

1. Place sugar cube in champagne flue and sprinkle with bitters.
2. Top with chilled sparkling cider.
3. Serve.

Cook's notes: Angostura bitters are sold in the liquor section of most markets with the mixers.  They are a distillation of herbs, barks, roots and plants; they contain a small amount of alcohol, but only 1-2 drops are used in each drink.

Source: Orange County Register, Food Section, Nov. 26, 2000 from "Entertaining 1-2-3" by Rozanne (Little, Brown & Company $27.95)

Hibiscus Flower Coolers

4 cups water
1 cup dried hibiscus flowers (about 1-1/2 ounces) (see cook's notes)
1/3 cup sugar, or to taste
2 cups ice.

1. In saucepan, bring water to boil and add flowers.
2. Simmer mixture 5 minutes and remove pan from heat.
3. Let mixture stand 30 minutes to infuse.
4. Pour infusion through sieve into glass pitcher, pressing on solids and discard flowers.
5. Add sugar and ice, stirring until sugar is dissolved.
6. Chill cooler and stir before serving over ice in tall glasses.
7. Makes 6 cups, about 4 servings.

Cook's notes: Dried hibiscus flowers are sold in Mexican markets, such as El Toro Market, 1340 W. First St., Santa Ana, CA.

Source: Orange County Register, Food Section, Nov. 26, 2000 adapted from Gourmet magazine, June 1997

Slow-Cooker Cranberry Punch

2 cups cranberry juice
2 quarts apple cider
1/2 cup sugar
1 orange studded with 6 whole cloves
2 cinnamon sticks, about 3 inches each
Garnish: orange slices or cinnamon sticks.

1. Combine all ingredients (except garnish) in  slow-cooker.
2. Simmer, covered, on low setting 1-1/2 hours.
3. Serve in warmed mugs.
4. Garnish each with orange slice or cinnamon stick.
5. Makes 10 servings.

Source: Orange County Register, Food Section, Nov. 26, 2000 adapted from "Drinks Without Alcohol" by Jane Brandt (Workman, $7.95)

The Virgin Lei

6 ounces Pina Colada Mix
1 ounce pineapple juice
1 ounce strawberry preserves
Ice
Garnish: pineapple wedge

1. Put all ingredients and ice into blender.
2. Blend until desired consistency.
3. Pour into glass and decorate with pineapple wedge.
4. Add more pineapple for a more fruity taste.

Source: James Franks, Blue Lamp, Sacramento, CA.

Other Recipes

• MADD National Non-Alcoholic Party Drink Recipes.  Available in English and Spanish.
• Hypnosis Institute of Texas - http://www.drmike-hypnosis.com/recipe.html 

Source of recipes: Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) unless otherwise noted.

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