I don’t remember my parents hosting large parties, but apparently they did just that during the first decade of their marriage (they were married in December 1939).
Once they bought their house in 1942, friends gathered in the back yard to cook on the brick BBQ, and play volleyball (or sometimes badminton) using a net that could be easily set up and removed for storage. Permanent footings were buried in the lawn, so they just had to bring the poles out, drop them into the two footings, and string the net between them.
My recollection is that my parents rarely drank alcohol, except when they had guests. And, it seems, more guests meant more aclohol, at least according to this recipe in my mother’s handwriting for a rather potent sounding mix, “Scorpions for 20 people.”
It called for a gallon of oke (referring to Hawaiian okolehao), which might have been more accessible during WWII than commercial whiskey, along with slices of fruit and fruit juice, with the explicit instruction to “let stand for at least 48 hours.”
No, I’ve never tested the recipe.
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Love this! I remember throwing big parties during my kids’ first five years or so. The parties got smaller and smaller as we parents became more tired and broke. LOL
Sounds good!!reminds me of the Rumtopf I had set up in Korea while moving there 1970 . Rumtopf: layers of seasonal fruits and layer of sugar continued during fruit season. I served my Mother in law and her distinguished, elderly lady friends
A scoop of icecream and a little serving from the Rumtopf , decorated with whipped cream.
Result; They all took a little nap on the warm
“Ondul” – heated floor ….???? Rumtopf is very potent.
On the other hand : Korean Grandmothers loved
To squeeze dark grapes and keep the juice in bttls outside the fridge.
Korean summers are rather humid and hot-
Visiting grandchildren were treated with a glass of “healthy” grape juice and always very joyful afterwards ????????
Eh, Mom could smoke Martha Stewart!