Mexican Ponche/Fruit Punch is a traditional hot drink during the Christmas Holidays. We adapted the recipe and made a few tweak from Mexico in my Kitchen
Ingredients:
1. 4 quarts of water about 1 gallon
2. 1/4 large piloncillo cone (or 2 oz. of brown sugar). You can add more if you like it super sweet.
3. 2 cinnamon sticks
4. 4 sugar cane sticks
5. Tejocotes/Mexican hawthorn
6. 6 guavas
7. 1 apple chopped
8. 1 cup pear chopped
9. 1 clementine
10. 1/4 1 cup of Hibiscus Flowers
Instructions:
1. Boil the water in a large pot. You will need to add additional water as the water evaporated in the process.
2. Add ingredients #2, 3, 4 and 5. Let it boil for 5 min.
3. Add ingredients #6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Let it boil for another 5 min.
4. Let it simmer for 10 - 15 min.
5. Serve hot in mugs, ladling in some of the fruit and adding tequila, vodka, rum or whatever you please to your liking.
