Rachel'S Pink Punch - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 c. sugar
1 lemon, cut in half
2 to 3 sticks cinnamon or handful of cracked cinnamon
1 cherry Kool-Aid
1 raspberry Kool-Aid
1 (46 oz.) pineapple juice
1 (46 oz.) blended orange/grapefruit juice
1 Tbsp. almond extract
2 c. water

Preparation

Boil sugar in water with lemon, cut and squeezed and thrown in.
Add cinnamon.
Boil 5 to 10 minutes.
Remove cinnamon and lemon rind.
Add remaining ingredients.
Freeze cherries, strawberries, mandarin oranges, etc. in circle mold to float in center of punch bowl.
Seven-Up or ginger ale is optional.