French 75 Punch

Ingredients

• 4 cups champagne dry white dry chilled
• 2 cups hendrick's gin dry such as tanqueray)
• 1 cup juice of lemon freshly squeezed
• 8  orange wheels for garnish
• 0.5 teaspoon orange bitters 
• 1 large ice block smaller blocks 

Equipment

• bowl
• ladle

Directions

1. In a punch bowl, combine the gin, lemon juice, simple syrup, and bitters and stir until thoroughly blended.
2. Just before serving, pour in the Champagne and stir gently.
3. Add the ice and garnish with the orange wheels.
4. To serve, ladle into punch glasses.
5. Reprinted with permission from Cocktails for a Crowd: More than 40 Recipes for Making Popular Drinks in Party-Pleasing Batches by Kara Newman. Text copyright © 2013 by Kara Newman; photographs copyright © 2013 by Teri Lyn Fisher. Published by Chronicle Books, LLC.