Anyone have memories of Parish Hall or Church Punch?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

We are in a big BBQ cook-off this weekend and one of the categories is a drink. So after a long deliberation of a hundred possibilities, we all agreed it would be really funny to make church punch. However it has to be spiked because it's a cocktail category.

We bought a real crystal punch bowl with cups from Goodwill. And we have a recipe from 1950. Basically orange juice, lemonade, pineapple juice and ginger ale. But we have to spike it. My memory it called for some kind of sherbet - but this doesn't.

Vodka? Bourbon?

PS. Know this is a cooking and baking forum but DU doesn't have a drinking forum

[Mr.Bill]

1. I would use Vodka.

Unlike Bourbon, Vodka really has no taste to interfere with the fruity punch flavor.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. And no color!

[leftieNanner]

2. Rum might work

Goes with the fruit.

[Walleye]

5. That sounds good. Myers rum

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Floater on top?

[Walleye]

11. Yes!

[ultralite001]

12. "Presbyterian" Punch...

2 liter bottle 7-UP
46 ounce can pineapple juice
6 ounce can frozen limeade
6 ounce can frozen orange juice
½ quart rainbow sherbet

In a punch bowl, mix together 7-UP, pineapple juice, limeade and orange juice together gently.
Using an ice cream scoop, scoop several servings of rainbow sherbet and float on top of punch before serving.
Add a scoop of sherbet with each glass.

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Church Punch w/ a Kick
2 liters 7-Up
1 (12 ounce) can frozen orange juice
1 (12 ounce) can frozen lemonade
1 750 ml bottle Southern Comfort
Ice
Sliced lemon
Sliced lime
Sliced orange
Sliced berries

Combine in punch bowl.
Add ice and cutup lemons, limes, oranges and berries.

Also works with vodka, rum, and spiced rum.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. Thanks!!! Can't believe there's a Presbyterian punch. I remember punch

More from like showers and wedding receptions.

Had not heard of Southern Comfort in years. What is it? Bourbon?

[ultralite001]

16. I love old church cookbooks...

"Ambrosia Salad for 50"

"Fried Chicken for a Crowd"

"Mrs McGinty's Funeral Potatoes"

Amazing slice of life...

[Backseat Driver]

20. Southern Comfort - fruit liqueur combined with whiskey

Being residents of the North Coast city where Stouffer was a household name long before the freezer meals were cranked out in suburban Northfield, we changed the signature Hilty Dilty ingredient from apricot brandy to more favored Southern Comfort. After playing outside one hot summer day, siblings (2) and I discovered the "Pink Lime-aid" in a big pitcher in the fridge...Wow was Mom mad that we quenched our thirst on the whole pitcher of Hilty Diltys in the fridge for the grown-up's dinner cocktails...lol! The brand still exists in the freezer case even if the restaurants do not...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/stouffers-lost-cocktails-empire - our family version...all the way at the bottom of article

To revisit Stouffer’s bibulous past requires a copy of Here’s How and a home bar. May I suggest making the chain’s signature Hilty Dilty? It’s a drink that proves that the modern age does not have a lock on unfortunate drink names. Here’s How notes that “This original Stouffer cocktail ranks high on the guest favored list.” It was featured as the special on Friday nights at some of the restaurants. (The drink was made with an ounce-and-a-half of apricot brandy, an eighth-of-an-ounce of grenadine, and half-an-ounce of lime juice, shaken with cracked ice and served in a coupe.To revisit Stouffer’s bibulous past requires a copy of Here’s How and a home bar. May I suggest making the chain’s signature Hilty Dilty? It’s a drink that proves that the modern age does not have a lock on unfortunate drink names. Here’s How notes that “This original Stouffer cocktail ranks high on the guest favored list.” It was featured as the special on Friday nights at some of the restaurants. (The drink was made with an ounce-and-a-half of apricot brandy, an eighth-of-an-ounce of grenadine, and half-an-ounce of lime juice, shaken with cracked ice and served in a coupe.))

or right from the pitcher, LOL!

Fruity punch, indeed!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Vodka. Absolutely.

Bourbon would overwhelm the other ingredients.

I'm personally not much of a bourbon drinker, but I know it has a distinct and strong flavor of its own, which is what people who drink it like.

[czarjak]

4. Everclear

[tishaLA]

6. LOL it's not a frat party! nt

[czarjak]

18. Not until added!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

21. Reminds me of Hunch Punch at parties. Grain Alcohol

and Hawaiian Punch. Strong memory of thinking grain alcohol was the scariest thing on earth. Lol

[Kali]

7. dark rum

yeah, a lot of those old punch recipes had sherbet in them

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. I like dark rum.. but wouldn't it turn punch brown?

[Kali]

17. it might

maybe that is what the sherbet covered?

[DBoon]

13. clear Jamaican Rum if you can find it

all the rum flavor but no color

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. Think we have some from Barbados. Will try that

And vodka to see which tastes the best

[Kali]

19. I confess I have never had any rums other than old Bacardi

and gold is better than silver for sure.

[Chainfire]

22. When I was a kid, I went to protestant churches in the Deep South.

All of drinking was done on the sly, not out in the open. Local church people would drive to the next county to enjoy a mixed drink. I will never forget the look on one of my school teachers faces, when I saw here in a restaurant (in the next county) with a mixed drink in front of her. You would have thought that I caught here doing the mailman....doggie style.

"Keep it in the pantry with your cupcakes."

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. Ha Believe it or not, think it's still exactly like that in some places!

[AllaN01Bear]

24. just told this to a friend and she said vodka might work

our church used to have a concert series and shed serve this to the attendees , sans booze value added .

[Laura PourMeADrink]

26. Probably will go with that! They're gonna go traditionalo

With crystal punch bowl and ice ring with fruit in it and doily underneath.

Then gonna do that thing where you take a bottle of vodka and put it into an empty milk carton and fill it with water. You freeze it and then peel the carton away. You end up with the bottle inside a frozen chunk of ice. That will be set beside a simple sign, Church Punch. Hope we win!

[trof]

25. Just for (a lot of ) fun

Everclear
Grain alcohol
200 proof
WooHoo!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

27. Agree! But team a bunch of bankers in red Texas so

Not much pushing the envelope . Although one suggested calling it " Back Row Baptist Church Punch" I liked it