Ingredients
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup water
1/8 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. allspice
1/2 tsp. cloves
1 can jellied cranberry sauce
1-1/2 cups water
1-1/2 cups pineapple juice
cinnamon sticks (optional)

Directions
Combine brown sugar, 1/2 cup water, salt and spices in a sauce pan and bring to a boil. Put cranberry sauce in a bowl and crush with a fork. Add 1-1/2 cups water and beat with a rotary beater until smooth. Add cranberry-water mixture and pineapple juce to hot spiced syrup and heat to boiling. Serve hot, using cinnamon sticks for stirrers if desired. Serves 8.

For fun, you can serve the punch in a soup pot that has been covered with black paper and decorated with orange cut-out pumpkins, ghosts, cats, bats and witches.