Ingredients

  • For sugar syrup
  • 1 1/4 kg caster sugar
  • 1 liter water
  • For peach champagne fruit puree
  • 500 g tinned peaches (825g tin, drained)
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 300 ml sugar syrup
  • For strawberry or raspberry champagne fruit puree
  • 250 g raspberries or 250 g strawberries
  • 100 ml orange juice
  • 200 ml sugar syrup
  • champagne or sparkling wine, to serve

Method

  • To make sugar syrup (which must be made in advance and allowed to cool before adding puree mixture).
  • Place sugar and water in a saucepan. Stir to dissolve sugar and then bring to the boil. Remove from the heat and allow to cool. Store in a container in the fridge (it will keep at least a month).
  • For a peach champagne fruit puree ~
  • Puree peaches, lemon juice and sugar syrup until smooth, pass through a fine sieve. Pour a little puree into the bottom of a glass and top with your favourite champagne or sparkling wine.
  • Raspberry champagne fruit puree ~.
  • Puree raspberries or strawberries, orange juice and sugar syrup until smooth then pass through a fine sieve. Pour sparkling wine into a glass until it is two-thirds full. Add about 30ml of puree to each glass and top with a little more wine before serving.