Drink What Our Grandparents Drank: seeking FLAMING CHARTREUSE PUNCH recipe - Tiki Drinks and Food

R rupe33 Tiki Socialite DC Metro Area (MD) Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 381	R rupe33 Posted posted on Wed, Feb 21, 2007 6:58 PM A few weeks ago on the occasion of a relative's 60th birthday, the family got together and planned a surprise party, with some various memorabilia and things brought out for the occasion. I was most intrigued by this newspaper clipping of my grandparents enjoying something called "Flaming Chartreuse Punch." They lived outside Scranton, PA, and Camelback is a ski mountain in the Poconos. They had some kick-ass parties before I was around; my Grandfather was traditionally attired in a diaper as the baby new year every December 31, while his best friend was usually done up as Father Time. The photos are hilarious! Just tonight as I was getting ready to post this to TC and ask if anyone had a recipe for such an intriguing drink, a revelation came to me. Some years ago, before she passed away, my Grandmother told me a story about my Grandfather skipping work mid-week one day to have a fun day in the Poconos. Much to his chagrin, though, his picture was taken by a news photographer at this event, and his photo appeared in the paper the very next day! Try explaining that to the boss after you call in sick! Am pretty sure he did get in trouble at work. While telling me the story one day about 16 years after he'd passed on, my Grandmother handed down to me a number of shot glasses they'd gotten on that outing. They say "CHARTREUSE 1968 WINTER OLYMPICS Grenoble, France," so that at least helps place a year on the photo (there's no info on the clipping about where/when). The glasses are perhaps 2 inches tall, with a little handle on 'em. See here: They're the same glasses my Grandmother is using in the newspaper photo that was dug out this year! It just goes to show that an interest in flaming liquor drinks appears to run in my family. Now... anyone got a recipe for Flaming Chartreuse Punch??? A Google search turns up nada. Cheers, Rupe [EDITED slightly to change subject header] "Hello citrus, hello liquor - I love it when you touch each other" --the Hold Steady, 'Citrus' [ Edited by: rupe33 2007-03-26 04:50 ]

A few weeks ago on the occasion of a relative's 60th birthday, the family got together and planned a surprise party, with some various memorabilia and things brought out for the occasion. I was most intrigued by this newspaper clipping of my grandparents enjoying something called "Flaming Chartreuse Punch." They lived outside Scranton, PA, and Camelback is a ski mountain in the Poconos.

They had some kick-ass parties before I was around; my Grandfather was traditionally attired in a diaper as the baby new year every December 31, while his best friend was usually done up as Father Time. The photos are hilarious!

Just tonight as I was getting ready to post this to TC and ask if anyone had a recipe for such an intriguing drink, a revelation came to me. Some years ago, before she passed away, my Grandmother told me a story about my Grandfather skipping work mid-week one day to have a fun day in the Poconos. Much to his chagrin, though, his picture was taken by a news photographer at this event, and his photo appeared in the paper the very next day! Try explaining that to the boss after you call in sick!

Am pretty sure he did get in trouble at work. While telling me the story one day about 16 years after he'd passed on, my Grandmother handed down to me a number of shot glasses they'd gotten on that outing. They say "CHARTREUSE 1968 WINTER OLYMPICS Grenoble, France," so that at least helps place a year on the photo (there's no info on the clipping about where/when). The glasses are perhaps 2 inches tall, with a little handle on 'em. See here:

They're the same glasses my Grandmother is using in the newspaper photo that was dug out this year! It just goes to show that an interest in flaming liquor drinks appears to run in my family. Now... anyone got a recipe for Flaming Chartreuse Punch??? A Google search turns up nada.

Cheers,
Rupe

[EDITED slightly to change subject header]

"Hello citrus, hello liquor -
I love it when you touch each other"
--the Hold Steady, 'Citrus'

[ Edited by: rupe33 2007-03-26 04:50 ]

Post #287277 by rupe33 on Wed, Feb 21, 2007 6:58 PM