Sparkling Peach Tea
- 1 ripe peach
- 1/2 cup Simple Syrup, recipe follows
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 3 cups peach iced tea, chilled
- 1 cup Prosecco, chilled
- Lemon slices, for garnish
- 1 cup sugar
- Cut the peach in half, remove the pit and dice the fruit.
- Put the peaches, Simple Syrup and lemon juice into a blender and puree until smooth.
- Strain the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer.
- Stir together the peach-simple syrup mixture with the peach iced tea.
- Pour half of the peach tea mixture into ice cube trays and freeze.
- Chill the remaining peach tea mixture.
- To make the cocktails: Fill 4 tall iced tea glasses with the tea cubes.
- Divide the peach tea evenly among the glasses.
- Top each with Prosecco, garnish with a lemon slice and serve immediately.
- Combine the sugar and 1 cup water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Cook, stirring, until the sugar dissolves.
- Remove from the heat and let cool completely.
- Keep covered in the refrigerator up to 1 month.
- Yield: 1 1/2 cups
peach, simple syrup, lemon juice, lemon slices, sugar
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/geoffrey-zakarian/sparkling-peach-tea.html (may not work)