Cranberry Spiced Punch - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 c. sugar
1 c. water
1/2 tsp. whole cloves
3 cinnamon sticks
2 c. cranberry juice
1/2 c. lemon juice
1 c. orange juice
3 c. ginger ale
fifth of rum

Preparation

Mix first 4 ingredients.
Boil 5 minutes.
Strain.
Mix in fruit juices.
Just before serving, pour over a decorative ice ring mold (a bag of cranberries frozen into the ice is beautiful). Add ginger ale and rum.
Serves 12.