New Year’s Eve Punch

2 cups sugar
2 cups water
2 cups crushed pineapple
1 pound frozen crushed strawberries, thawed
1 pint strong brewed green tea
1 cup lemon juice
42 ounces lemon-lime carbonated beverage
2 trays ice cubes

Simmer sugar and water together for 5 minutes. Cool sugar syrup mixture. Chill crushed pineapple, green tea, lemon juice and lemon-lime carbonated beverage. When ready to serve combine sugar syrup with chilled crushed pineapple and liquid from pineapple. Mix in thawed strawberries, chilled green tea, and chilled lemon juice. Slowly pour in chilled lemon-lime carbonated beverage. Pour punch mixture into punch bowl. Add ice cubes to punch mixture. Garnish punch bowl with curls of orange rind if desired.

Makes 30 Servings

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