Powdered sugar?!

Some of my chemist friends and I had a similar St. Barbara's Day punch except it used pinches of salt peter, charcoal, sulfur, assorted alcohols, a dash of hydrogen peroxide, a bit of silicon grease, vinegar, and several finger-sized peices of burned beef... It was ignited with a red-hot poker then doused with CO2 fire extinguisher. However, there wasn't much of a ritual in the mixing other than a lot of shouting "Blood! Fire! Boom!" over and over...

-Blast