Algonquin Bar Punch - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 lemons, rind of, peel (from 4 lemons, use vegetable to peel strips)
1/3 cup superfine sugar
2 cups fresh raspberries, divided
3 cups sloe gin
2 cups fresh lemon juice
1 1/2 cups dark Jamaican rum
6 cups ice cubes
ice, 1 block
2 cups chilled Brut champagne
lemon slice

Preparation

Place lemon peel strips in large bowl. Add sugar and mash with wooden spoon to infuse sugar with lemon. Add 1 1/4 cups raspberries and mash to blend.
Pour in sloe gin, lemon juice, and rum. Add ice cubes; stir to blend. Refrigerate punch 20 minutes.
Place ice block in punch bowl. Strain punch over ice block. Add champagne; stir to blend. Garnish with lemon slices and remaining raspberries.