Best Lemonade I have EVER made!!!

Made this recipe this morning... but changed it up a little. I juiced 4 lemons. Added 1/2 cup truvia to the lemon juice and mixed this together with 2 qt of cold water. Pretty good... definitely better than Kool - aid and almost as good as chick-fil-a:)

Holiday Punch

This came from an old CWS homeschool group cookbook. I think the original recipe came from Rhonda Hart.

4 cups cranberry juice
4 cups pineapple juice
1 1/2 cups of sugar
1 tablespoon almond extract
2 quarts ginger ale

Combine first four ingredients. Stir until sugar is disolved. Chill. Add ginger ale just before serving. Fills up a large punch bowl.

Russian Tea

I'm not exactly sure where this recipe came from, but I think it was Stella Ells. I have a couple of memories of her from when I was a child...The way she said her husband's name, "Sa-am" and that she had apples that we could go and pick. Yum.

I remember my mother making this for Christmas and it has become one of my Fall and Winter favorites.

2 quarts Apple Cider
2 cups Pineapple Juice
2 cups Orange Juice
1/2 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup sugar
1/2-1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
1/2-1 teaspoon of ground cloves
(The recipe did call for 2-3 sticks of cinnamon and 12 whole cloves, but I substituted the ground stuff)

I put it in my crock pot on low about 4 hours before I planned to serve it. The recipe did say to bring it to a boil first, but I imagine it would be just for the benefit of the whole spices if you were using those.