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About the Author

Joanna White is a long-time, bestselling cookbook author who also lectures in cooking and nutrition. She combines a degree in biology with a prestigious Advanced Certificate from the Cordon Bleu School of Cooking. Joanna is the author of the bestselling titles, Slow Cooking, Party Fare, The Dehydrator Cookbook, The Juicer Book, Recipes for the Pressure Cooker, and many other cookbooks.

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Halloween Ghoul-ade

Ingredients:

* 1 envelope Kool-Aid grape flavor unsweetened mix
* 1 envelope Kool-Aid orange flavor unsweetened mix
* 2 cups sugar
* 3 quarts cold water
* 1 quart chilled ginger ale

Directions:
Mix both envelopes Kool Aid together with sugar, in large pitcher. Add water and mix. Just before serving, add ginger ale.

Add A Frozen Hand to the mix!

For that special touch, add a frozen hand to the punch bowl and really surprise the kids!

Fill an unpowdered or washed, vinyl surgical glove with water, colored water or koolaid and freeze.  Just before serving, peel off the glove and place the “Frozen Hand” in the punch bowl!

Tips:

• Do not overfill because the water expands as it freezes
• Run a thin wooden skewer from one side of the glove to the other, just below the opening, to act as a hanger.  Hang the glove over a pitcher to fill and place pitcher with glove into freezer to freeze.

Bubbling Bat Brew

Ingredients:
* Two 12 oz. cans frozen grape juice
* One 2 liter bottle of ginger ale
* One half-gallon lime sherbet

Directions:
Make grape juice according to directions on can. Add to punchbowl. Add the ginger ale and stir thoroughly. Add sherbet just before serving.
Make it Spoooooooky!

Punch out or cut holes in lid of a sealed plastic container.
Drop in a piece of dry ice.
Before serving drop the container into the punch bowl.
Verrry spooky!