Ponche Navideño Recipe

Ingredients

• 16 cups of water, divided
• 1 cup dried hibiscus flowers
• 8 ounces (about 12) tamarind pods
• 16 whole cloves
• 1 orange, quartered
• 12 ounces (2 ¼ c) piloncillo (unrefined whole cane sugar) coarsely chopped
• 3 pieces of fresh sugar cane, about 6’’ long, peeled and quartered
• 5 cinnamon sticks
• 30 tejocotes
• 2 golden delicious apples, cored and cut into 1’’ chunks
• 1 ½ cup of prunes
• ½ cup of raisins