Bubbling Cauldron Cocktails

• 1/2 lemon
• 2 ripe Bartlett pears
• 1 tablespoon dried currants
• 1/2 cup pear nectar
• One 750-ml bottle Champagne or other sparkling white wine

1. Fill a medium bowl with water and squeeze the lemon half into it.
2. Peel the pears and add them to the lemon water.
3. Using a small melon baller, scoop out balls from each pear; return the balls to the lemon water.
4. You will need 16 pear balls.
5. Using a toothpick, make a small hole in each pear ball and tuck a currant into each hole.
6. Pour 1 tablespoon of the pear nectar into each of 8 Champagne flutes.
7. Fill the flutes with Champagne.
8. Spear 2 pear "eyeballs" on a toothpick, put in each flute and serve at once.

lemon, bartlett, currants, pear nectar, white wine

Taken from www.foodandwine.com/recipes/bubbling-cauldron-cocktails (may not work)