Wine-poached Peaches with Butter Sponge

Melocotones con Vino y Sobaos Pasiegos

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Food of Northern Spain

By Jenny Chandler

Published 2005

  • About

I always associate peaches with Spain: there is nothing like biting into a fresh peach while the sticky juice runs down your chin. It’s rare to find a really fabulous peach in England, after all that chilling and travelling, but once cooked they seem to rise to their former glory. Lightly spiced, poached peaches make a deliciously refreshing summer dessert and they look stunning too. Their suede-pink skins leave behind the most beautiful blushed patterns on the flesh when poached in rosé wi