White peaches with raspberries and Champagne sorbet

Name: White peaches with raspberries and Champagne sorbet
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: lemon juice if needed; 400 ml double cream; icing sugar to taste; 1 bottle (75 cl) Champagne or good sparkling wine; 500 g caster sugar; 1 vanilla pod, split open; 400 g raspberries; 4 ripe but firm white peaches; 1 bottle (75 cl) Champagne or good sparkling wine

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Richard Corrigan Cookbook

By Richard Corrigan

Published 1999

About

White peaches are a little less sweet than yellow ones, but they have a delicious perfume. Make this on the day you are going to serve it.

Ingredients

4 ripe but firm white peaches
1 bottle (75 cl) Champagne or good sparkling wine

Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Summer

Method

Put the peaches in a bowl. Pour over boiling water to cover and leave for about 20 seconds, then drain and put into a bowl of iced water. Gently peel off the skins; reserve the skins.

Put the Champagne and sugar in a saucepan and add the peach skins. Scrape the tiny seeds out of the vanilla pod into the pan, then add the pod too. Bring just to the boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar. A