Peach Melba

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 cups water
• 1/4 cup lemon juice
• 1 lemon, zested
• 3 peaches, halved,pitted and skinned
• 1 lb raspberries
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1/2 quart vanilla ice cream
• 2 cups heavy cream, whipped
• 1 cup sliced almonds, toasted

Recipe

• 1 in a medium saucepan, prepare syrup.
• 2 bring sugar, water, lemon juice and zest to a boil.
• 3 lower to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes.
• 4 poach peaches until tender.
• 5 let them cool in the syrup.
• 6 to prepare the raspberry sauce, in a blender combine raspberries, sugar and lemon juice.
• 7 process to a puree.
• 8 remove fruits from syrup.
• 9 to serve, in a small bowl place a scoop of vanilla ice cream, place the fruit on top and cover with raspberry sauce.
• 10 garnish with whipped cream and toasted almonds.
• 11 for apricot melba, use 12 ripe, firm apricots, pitted and halved (no need to skin).