Christmas Punch – citrus thirst-quencher to knock you out

A large bowl of tangerines and a few other forlorn citrus fruits were revived by some not-so-seasonal booze, as was the family member who’d resorted to playing patience.

• 300ml Mount Gay rum
• 150ml Martini Rosso
• 75ml Campari
• 500ml citrus juice – I squeezed 8 tangerines, 2 oranges, 2 lemons and a lime. I would be sniffy about juice from a carton
• 175ml cranberry juice – I guess you could squeeze your own, but that’s a step too far even for me
• 300ml ginger ale
• 10 drops of orange bitters – Angostura would work well too
• 1 lime, 1 tangerine – thinly sliced

Stir all the ingredients with ice in a large jug. Makes 1.5l – enough for eight glasses – each full of ice, a slice of lime and of tangerine. Cocktail brollies obligatory.