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Banana Punch




Source of Recipe


Sandy Heath of Humble Pies Catering & Desserts/Houston TX






List of Ingredients



• 6 cups water
  
• 4 cups sugar
  
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• 5 bananas, mashed
  
• 1 46-oz. can pineapple juice
  
• 1 12-oz. can orange juice concentrate, diluted as can directs
  
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
  
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• ginger ale as needed, 3 or 4 2-liter bottles per recipe
  






Instructions



1. Combine water and sugar; heat over medium heat until sugar dissolves; don't boil.
   
2. Combine the bananas with the three juices & add the sugar water.
   
3. Divide into two freezeable containers and freeze until the day you'll be serving.
   
4. About an hour before serving, remove from freezer just long enough to get soft around the edges.
   
5. Place about half of a container (scoop it out with a big spoon) into a punch bowl.
   
6. Pour a 2-liter bottle of COLD ginger ale over it.
   
7. Stand back and wait for the compliments!
   






Final Comments


The nice thing about this punch is that your punch-to-ginger ale ratio isn't all that critical - it tastes great any way you mix it. (Allow about 3 or 4 bottles of ginger ale when you prepare the punch.)