East of Suez

• 1 qt. Hot Tea
• Lemon slices
• 2 oz. Lime juice
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 pt. Batavia arak
• 1/2 pt. curacao
• 1 pt. Dark Rum
• 1 pt. Cognac

Place tea, lemons, sugar, and lime juice in a pot on low heat to dissolve sugar. Add everything else except cognac. Warm some of the cognac in a laddle submerged in the punch, then light it on fire and pour it into punch. Add the rest of the cognac. Serves about 20.