Cherry Slush

"You can spike this refresher with any fruit-flavored vodka--"

7 cups boiling water
1 cup sugar, plus additional sugar to rim glasses
2 tea bags
2 cups cherry-flavored vodka
1 (12-ounce) can frozen orange juice concentrate

Combine the boiling water and 1 cup sugar. Add tea bags; let steep 3 to 5 minutes. Remove tea bags and discard. Cool sugar mixture. Add vodka and orange juice concentrate. Pour into a 9x13x2-inch baking pan. Freeze overnight. to serve, use a large spoon to scrape across the surface of the frozen mixture. Spoon slush into chilled sugar-rimmed glasses. To rim glasses with sugar, rub the edge of each glass with water; invert glass in a dish of granulated sugar.--Nita Preheim, Marion, S.D.

Makes 10 cups.

[recipe on the back of "Glogg Nog," clipped from "Better Homes and Gardens"]