Summer Trends 2007

Serves 20

1 pint raspberries
1 cup sugar syrup
4 cups club soda
4 cups dark rum
4 cups fresh lime juice
½ cup superfine sugar
Raspberries and slices of lime as garnish

To make sugar syrup, heat 1 cup of both sugar and water over low heat, stirring until dissolved. Increase heat to medium and simmer for two minutes. Let syrup cool and chill before using.

In a punch bowl, crush raspberries into sugar syrup. Add club soda, dark rum and lime juice, plus ½ cup superfine sugar. Ladle into ice-filled glasses; garnish with raspberries and lime slices.