Christmas Punch - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 Tbsp. tea
4 qt. boiling water
3 c. sugar (approximately)
3 (46 oz.) cans pineapple juice
orange slices and red and green cherries
3 (46 oz.) cans orange juice
3 qt. ginger ale
5 doz. lemons
3 (46 oz.) cans cranberry juice

Preparation

Pour boiling water over tea, let it steep a few minutes and strain; sweet to taste.
When cold, add juices, taste and add more sugar if necessary.
Just before serving, add ginger ale.
This will make about 125 punch cups.
Serve in
large punch bowl with block of ice in it.
Top the ice with a sprig of Oregon holly if you like, float orange slice in punch to which halves of red maraschino cherries and green mint cherries have been speared with cocktail picks.
Pour the syrup from cherries into punch.