Rum Punch Recipe

Tomorrow we're hosting a swing dance lesson/party, so today Manman made rum punch for it. It's delicious!

Ingredients
1.75 cups water
1.5 cups sugar
peel from one lime or lemon
1/2 cup fresh lime juice (about 6 small limes)
1 sprig anis (or 1 tsp anis seeds)
20 oz pineapple juice, unsweetened
20 oz grapefruit juice, unsweetened
20 oz orange juice, unsweetened
1 cup strong light rum
2 cups dark rum
1/2 cup grenadine syrup
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tps (about, just do a few dashes) bitters

Directions
1. Make simple syrup using 1.5 cups each of water and sugar, and the peel from lemon or lime. Boil, stirring constantly until sugar is dissolved. Remove immediately from heat and let cool to room temperature.
2. Boil anis in 1/4 cup water for 5 minutes, remove from heat.
3. Squeeze limes to make lime juice, strain to remove pulp.
4. Combine pineapple juice, grapefruit juice, and orange juice in large bowl or pot. Remember to shake before opening! Add cooled simple syrup and cooled anis water through a strainer, add lime juice, mix.
5. Add light and dark rums, grenadine syrup, bitters, and ground nutmeg (fresh, if possible). Stir. Taste, adding whatever may need more, but don't ask a man to taste it, since he'll just say it needs more rum. You don't need more rum.
6. Pour into a large (very large) juice bottle through strainer and funnel. Refrigerate overnight.
7. If it's a small party, serve chilled. If it's larger, serve with plenty of ice. Remember to shake bottle before pouring. Enjoy!