Peach Melba

Tinned fruit generally is fine for cooking or making ice-cream or sorbets, and since this dish demands poached peaches, tinned are a reasonable substitute for fresh. Peach Melba was created in honour of the diva Dame Nellie Melba, and used peaches poached in syrup which were peeled, halved, stoned and presented on a silver dish piled around a mound of the finest vanilla ice-cream, with a rich i