Christmas Punch - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. sugar
1 c. water
4 c. bottled cranberry juice
1 1/2 c. lemon juice
2 c. orange juice
2 c. unsweetened pineapple juice
block of ice
2 bottles ginger ale

Preparation

Combine sugar and water; bring to a boil, stirring until sugar dissolves.
Cover and boil over low heat about 5 minutes.
Combine sugar, syrup and all the fruit juices.
Chill thoroughly in your refrigerator.
Just before serving time, ladle punch over ice until well chilled.
Pour in ginger ale.
Makes 24 to 30 punch cup servings.