Garden Party Punch

Preparation info
  • Makes

    50

    ( 1 cup ) servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All: Recipes, Remembrances, and a Little Riotous Behavior

By Mary Martha Greene

Published 2021

  • About

This punch was served at my parents’ wedding in 1953 and at probably every tea and event my mother hosted after that. I remember her making the tea for it in large gallon-size pickle jars placed on the back porch because “sun tea” didn’t get “cloudy.”

After all the ingredients were combined in her big canning pot, she’d divide it up into large plastic containers and freeze it so she could pull out however much she needed for any particular event. Canned juices can be hard to find th