Hot Spiced Cranberry Punch

• 4 cups pineapple juice
• 4 cups water
• 2 cans jellied cranberry sauce
• 2 cups light rum
• 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 3/4 tsp. ground cloves
• 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. ground allspice
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. grated nutmeg

Directions:

Bring sugar, 1 cup water, salt, and spices to a boil.

Mash cranberry sauce with a fork.

Add remaining water to cranberry sauce and beat with a rotary beater until smooth.

Add cranberry liquid and pineapple juice to hot spiced syrup and heat to a boil.

Add rum.

Serve hot with cinnamon stick stirrers.

Makes approximately 20 5-oz. servings.