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Caribbean Drink Recipes
Sorrel Drink Ginger Beer Golden Apple Drink Passion Fruit Drink Mauby
Pumkin Punch Soursop Punch Sea Moss Drink Rum Punch Tropical Fruit Punch
 Banana Punch
Carrot Punch
Coconut Punch
Peanut Punch
Pineapple Cordial

Recipes
SORREL DRINK

INGREDIENTS: 

1 pound sorrel 
 2-4 oz. ginger 
2 quarts water 
sugar 
wine (optional) 
8-12 pimento grains 

METHOD: 

1.Wash sorrel thoroughly, using the fingers to lift it form the water. Put into stainless steel container. 
2.Scrape and wash ginger. Grate and Add to the sorrel. Add pimento grains. 
3.Boil water and pour over sorrel. Allow to stand 4-6 hours. Strain. 
4.Sweeten to taste and add rum to taste. Add optional wine. 
5.Service with ice cubes. 

GINGER BEER

Ingredients
1 lb. fresh green ginger 
4 C. gran. sugar (2 lbs.) 
1/4 lb. potatoes 
4 - 6 grains cloves 
1 piece cinnamon 
8 c. boiling water 
METHOD
1. Clean and crush ginger. 
2. Peel and chop potatoes in medium pieces. 
3. Put ginger, potatoes, clove, cinnamon a sugar in a large bottle or jar. 
4. Pour boiling water over. Stir and cover allow to brew for 2 - 4 days. 
5. Strain and bottle. 
Serve with ice and Angostura bitters. Ginger can be diluted with water if the flavour is too strong. 
2. Mix thoroughly; add flavouring and chill. NOTE: Flavouring may be omitted and a dash of Angostura bitters may be added or 1 or 2 tbsp. of wine or brandy can be used. 

GOLDEN APPLE DRINK


INGREDIENTS
8 golden apples (ripe) 
sugar to taste 
4 pts. water 
2 tbsp. rum 
1/2 tsp. essence. 
METHOD

1. Wash and peel golden apples, grate or cut into small pieces. 
2. Place peel, pulp and seeds into jar. 
3. Add sugar, water, rum and essence and stir until sugar is dissolved. 
4. Leave for two days. 
5. Strain and bottle off and keep in relfrigerator. Use as required.

PASSION FRUIT DRINK

INGREDIENTS
2 c. gran. sugar 
spices optional cubes in blender. 
12 passion fruit 
6 c. hot water 
METHOD

1. Remove seeds and pulp from fruit. 
2. Pour hot water over seeds and allow to cool. 
3. Sweeten to taste and dilute with water if one wishes a milder flavour
4. Serve with ice.

MAUBY

INGREDIENTS

4 pieces mauby bark 
1 piece of aniseed 
1 piece cinnamon 
2 c.sugar 
Angostura bitters 

METHOD

1. Put all ingredients into a pot and boil for a few mins 
2. Remove from heat and allow to cool. 
3. Strain. 
4. When serving, add water to desired strength and sugar if necessary. 
Serve with ice and few dashes of bitters.

PUMPKIN PUNCH

INGREDIENTS 

1 lb. pumpkin 
1 tin pineapple juice 
3 c. water 
1 c. gran. sugar 
Ice 
 

METHOD

1. Peel and cut pumpkin in small pieces. 
2. Boil in a little water until tender; cool. 
3. Puree in an electric blender with 3 c. water.
4. Sweeten to taste. 
5. Add pineapple juice and ice. Chill and serve.

SOURSOP PUNCH

INGREDIENTS

1 Soursop peeled 
2 c. water
6-8 tbsp. condensed milk salt 
1 tsp. sugar
Angostum bitters 

METHOD

1. Crush the soursop in a bowl with 1/2 the water
2. Pound it well and pass through a sieve to extract the juice. 
3. Add the remaining water, milk and salt. Mix well. 
4. Add sugar and stir until dissolved. 
5. Strain, chill and serve with bitters. 

SEA MOSS DRINK

INGREDIENTS

1 lb. sea moss 
1 lime 
Angostura bitters
milk 
sugar to taste 
 

METHOD

1. Soak sea moss with lime juice overnight. 
2. Wash thoroughly and cook in pressure cooker for 20-30 mins. or until the sea moss resembles a mass of jelly. 
3. Cool, add milk and sugar to taste and blend in a blender. 
4. Flavour with bitters and serve with crushed ice. 

RUM PUNCH

INGREDIENTS 

one of sour
two of sweet 
three of strong 
four of weak
1 oz. of sour, 2 oz. sweet, 3 oz. of strong
4 oz.weak; make 10 oz. of punch or 3 drinks.

METHOD

Make my multiple of the above proportions desired. 
SOUR: Lime juice or lemon juice. 
SWEET: Simple syrup made of equal parts sugar and water boiled for 5 mins. Grenadine syrup is nice. 
STRONG: Rum. 
WEAK: Combined water and ice. Add a dash angostrua bitters and a dust of nutmeg. 

TROPICAL FRUIT PUNCH

INGREDIENTS

3 c. orange juice 
3 c. pineapple juice
3 c. grapefruit juice 
1/4 c.lime or lemon juice 
1/2 c. honey 
4 tins ginger ale or soda water 
1/2 - 1 c. rum or white wine 
1 c. finely chopped pineapple 
½ - 1 c. small melon pieces or balls 
1 lime or orange seeded and thinly sliced 

METHOD

1. Combine orange, pineapple, grapefruit, and lime juice. 
2. Sweeten to taste with honey and chill for a few hours. 
3. Just before serving, stir in ginger ale, rum, pineapple pieces and melon balls. Garnish with, lime or orange slices. Serve with
crushed ice. 

NB: Rum can be left out and punch will still 

BANANA PUNCH
(Sweetie Come Brush Me)

INGREDIENTS
4 Ripe Bananas
¾ pt Water
¼ pt Soy Milk
¼ tsp Freshly Grated Nutmeg
4 drops Vanilla Essence
Honey or Brown Sugar to taste
METHOD
1. Peel the bananas. 
2. Mash them with a fork and pass the puree through a fine sieve or liquidize with an electric blender. 
3. Add the water, soy milk, vanilla and nutmeg. 
4. Sweeten to taste honey/brown sugar. 
5. Chill before serving.
Serves 3-4

CARROT PUNCH
(Zion Juice)

INGREDIENTS

1 lb Carrots
1 pt Water
1 pt Soy Milk
3 tbsp silken tofu
1 tsp Rosewater
½ tsp Freshly Grated Nutmeg
Molasses or Raw Cane Sugar

METHOD

1. Peel and freshly grate the carrots.
2. Add the grated carrots to the water.
3. Strain the mixture through a sieve lined with muslin, gathering up the muslin once the liquid has drained through and squeezing to extract all the juice.
4. Repeat this process finally discarding the carrots.
5. Stir the milk, silken tofu, rosewater and nutmeg into the carrot liquid.
6. add molasses or raw cane sugar to taste.
Serves 4-6

COCONUT PUNCH
(Paradise Punch)

INGREDIENTS
 

1 Mature Coconut

1½ pt Water

4 oz. Raw Cane Sugar

½ tsp Almond Essence 

METHOD

1. Shell the coconut, peel and finely grate the flesh.
2. Mix the grated coconut with the water and strain the mixture through a sieve lined with muslin squeezing the muslin to extract all the juice.
3. Discard the coconut.
4. Add the raw cane sugar to the coconut liquid and stir until the sugar has dissolved.
5. Flavour with almond essence and chill.
Serves 3-4

PEANUT PUNCH

INGREDIENTS
 

8 ozs Shelled Roasted Peanuts

1½ pt Water

½ pt Soy Milk

½ tsp Vanilla Essence

½ tsp Freshly Grated Nutmeg

Raw Cane Sugar

METHOD

1. Place the shelled peanuts in an electric blender or food processor.
2. Measure out 1 pt of the water and gradually pour this into the blender while grinding the peanuts.
3. Leave the blender running for 1–2 minutes until the peanuts are thoroughly blended.
4. Strain the mixture through a sieve lined with muslin, pouring in a little at a time and squeezing the muslin to extract all the liquid.
5. After squeezing, discard the contents of the muslin.
6. Repeat until all the peanut mixture is used up.
7. Add the soy milk, then sweeten the drink to taste with cane sugar and flavour with vanilla essence and grated nutmeg.
Serves 3-4

PINEAPPLE CORDIAL

INGREDIENTS

1 Ripe Pineapple
4–5 Slices Peeled Ginger Root
3 Whole Cloves
2 Limes
2 pt Boiling Water
4 oz Raw Cane Sugar

METHOD

1. Peel the pineapple thickly and reserve the flesh for use in another dish.
2. Crush the slices of ginger root and thinly slice the lines.
3. Place the pineapple peel, ginger, limes and whole cloves in a large bowl.
4. Pour on the boiling water, cover and allow to steep for 24 hours.  Strain the liquid discarding the pineapple peel, lines and spices.
5. Stir in the raw cane sugar until dissolved.  Chill.
Serves 4–6

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