Cranberry Punch - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 qt. cranberries
3 c. water
2 c. sugar
4 c. hot water
juice of 1 orange
2 Tbsp. lemon juice
ginger ale (see directions for quantity)
2 sliced bananas

Preparation

Cook the cranberries in 3 cups water for about 5 minutes (until skins pop open) and strain.
In another pan, cook sugar and 4 cups hot water for 5 minutes and let cool.
Add orange and lemon juice; mix in cranberry juice.
Chill.
Just before serving, add 1 quart of ginger ale.
Put in punch bowl.
Slice bananas into punch bowl.
Makes about 25 cups.
It takes 7 1/2 cups of cranberry mixture for each quart of ginger ale.