My Family Juice

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The Family Juice Holidays are the best time of the year for me because that symbolizes that my entire family will be together celebrating one special day. Every holiday my mother makes our family's famous mint punch that has been around for generations. Mint Punch is a simple but tricky drink to make because if my mother puts one ingredient before the other it will throw the whole bowl of punch off. In order to make mint punch she will need the following ingredients: 2 liter ginger ale soda , 1 gallon pineapple sherbet ice cream , 1 can dole pineapple juice , 2 jars of mint jelly and 1 block of ice. Also my mother uses a small pan and a big glass bowl in order to make the drink. Even though Mint punch is a unique drink it contains five simple steps. The first step my mother does …show more content…

The reason she will need to have a glass bowl is because she has to have a bowl that can sustain heat for a long period of time until the ice starts to melt and cool the drink. Secondly my mother has to get the small cylinder cooking pan and heat the two jars of mint jelly over low heat. She will need to watch and stir the mint jelly in the pan periodically for about 5 minutes until the solid jelly transforms into a liquid substance. When making this bowl my mother always tell me about how hard it is to find Pure mint jelly because most of the time stores do not carry the product. Thirdly she puts the 1 gallon of pineapple sherbet ice cream on top of the block ice in the glass bowl. My mother always states that you will need block ice to make this drink instead of regular ice because regular ice melts faster when heat is applied. Fourthly once she’ve put the ice cream on the block ice she has to pour the heated mint jelly and the bubbly ginger ale soda into the bowl at the

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