Banana Punch - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 c. sugar
6 c. water
1 (46 oz.) can pineapple juice
1 (6 oz.) can frozen orange juice
5 bananas (very ripe) mashed
Juice of 2 lemons
2 qt ginger ale

Preparation

Combine sugar and water; bring to a boil for about 3 minutes; cool to room temperature.
Combine sugar syrup, pineapple juice, orange juice, bananas, and lemon juice.
Chill.
This may be prepared well in advance and frozen in cartons or Ziploc bags. When ready to serve, have punch base removed from freezer and almost thawed or take chilled punch base from refrigerator; add chilled ginger ale and serve.
This will serve 35 to 40 punch cups.