SANGRIA
Perfect setting: pitcher for two, Melrose Avenue, a night of
endless possibilities.
1/5 dry red wine
1 ripe peach
6 slices lemon
1/2 ounce cognac
1 ounce triple sec
1 ounce maraschino liqueur
1 tablespoon sugar
1 whole orange
6 ounces chilled club soda
1. Pour wine into a glass pitcher.
2. Add peeled and sliced peach and lemon slices.
3. Add cognac, triple sec, maraschino liqueur, and
sugar.
4. Stir to dissolve sugar.
5. Carefully place the orange in the pitcher. (See below.)
6. Let mixture marinate at room temperature for at
least 1 hour.
7. Add soda and 1 tray of ice cubes to pitcher.
8. Stir.
9. Pour into wine goblets.
(Serves 6)
(For orange: cut orange peel into one long strip,
beginning at stem end and continuing until spiral
reaches bottom of fruit. Make sure to expose the fruit
while cutting. Leave peel attached to orange bottom
to suspend fruit in pitcher.)