Water Punch – Sheryl Webster

5 quarts water

3 cups sugar

1 Tlb. Citric Acid (you may get this in the pharmacy department)

1 Tlb. lemon extract

Mix together; add ice and lemon slices, if desired. 

Sheryl Webster is Kaylie Peterson's Grandma. Kaylie is Lauryl's Childhood friend. 

Spiced Punch

Boil 2 sticks cinnamon or ½ tea. cinnamon

Pinch of cloves

4 cups sugar 

5 quarts water

Juice of 6 oranges

Juice of 6 lemons

Serve hot.

Hot Apple Cider

1 gallon Cider

1 cup brown sugar

¼ to ½ tea. each whole allspice and cloves

2 nutmegs (cracked open)

3 sticks cinnamon 

(Do not tie spices in a bag)

Simmer 60 minutes. Turn off heat; let spices remain in 30 minutes more. Strain off spices. Serve. It may be made ahead if kept cold, then heat when ready to serve. 

* This Cider used to be served in the Grantsville Commercial Security Bank at Christmas time. 

Cider Drink

½ cup sugar

2 cups water 

5 whole cloves

4 allspice berries

1 cinnamon stick

½ piece ginger root

2 cups orange juice

1 cup lemon juice

1 quart apple cider

Combine sugar and water. Add spices, cover and allow to stand in a warm place for 6 hours. Strain and add juices and cider. Bring to a boil and remove from heat. Serves about 8

Wassail – Emily Christensen

2 cups water 

1 cup sugar

2 cinnamon sticks

Simmer 10 minutes

1 quart cranberry juice

1 quart water 

2 cups orange juice

1 Tlb. lemon juice

Simmer 30 minutes and enjoy on a cold winter night. 

Wheat Beer – Kenna’s Relief Society’s Recipe

12 cups clean wheat

2 cups sugar 

½ cups hops

3 yeast cakes

Put wheat in shallow pan in 400˚ oven and brown well, stirring so it won’t burn. Put browned wheat and hops in sack and tie loosely. (It swells about double). Put in large kettle of water (3 or 4 gallons) and boil until desired color. Remove sack and add water to make 5 gallons. Cool. Now add yeast and sugar and let stand over night. Bottle. DO NOT LET IT FERMET!!

Homemade Root Beer

4 gallons water 

1 bottle Root Beer extract 

5 lbs. sugar

5 lbs. dry ice

Add all ingredients together except the dry ice. Stir until dissolved. Add dry ice and serve after 30 minutes. 

Homemade Root Beer – Paula Shomaker

2 cups sugar

1 tea. yeast

2 Tlbs. Root Beer Extract

1 Gal warm water

Pour extract over sugar. Add 1 gallon warm water. Add yeast and keep in warm place for about 4 hours, then chill.

Fruit Slush

4 pkg. Tropical Punch - Kool-Aid

3 ½ cups sugar

1 quart canned pineapple juice

3 mashed bananas

1 can crushed pineapple

1 16 oz Sprite

Freeze and serve with sprite

Banana Slush – Kenna Christensen

1 quart pineapple juice

Juice of 5 oranges

5 mashed bananas

Juice of 2 lemons

4 cups sugar

6 cups water

Boil sugar and water. Cool. Add ingredients. Add food coloring if desired. Freeze and serve with Sprite or 7-Up. 

Pineapple Slush – Paula Shomaker

2 cups sugar

1 cup water

Boil 5 minutes

½ pkg lime Jell-O

2 cups crushed pineapple

Juice of one lemon

¼ tea. salt

3 cups cold water

Freeze until solid. Serve with Sprite 

Rhubarb Slush – Paula Shomaker

4 Cups Rhubarb Juice

2 Cups Sugar

½ teas. Salt 

1 tea. Knox gelatin, dissolved in ¼ cup cold water

Boil sugar and rhubarb juice 5 minutes. Add dissolved gelatin and salt. Freeze until nearly solid. Beat until fluffy. Serve with Sprite. 

Homemade Cocoa Mix – Jodi Baird

3 ½ cup firmly packed brown sugar

2 cup cocoa

2 tea. ground cinnamon

½ tea. ground nutmeg

½ tea ground cloves

¼ tea salt

Process brown sugar, cocoa, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt until well blended. Store in an airtight container. 

To serve pour 6 oz. hot milk over 1 ½ tea. cocoa mix. Stir and enjoy.