Can anyone identify this drink?

[NicknNora]

We're watching a movie on TCM from 1956 called While the City Sleeps. They just had a scene in the movie where Ida Lupino and George Sanders are in a bar/restaurant drinking what we found to be an unusual drink. The drink was in a fluted glass and it looked like they put a whole peach in the glass and then poured in what looked like champagne. On the table there was a bowl of what looked like peaches or some other roundish fruit. Has anyone ever heard of a drink similar to this? We've never seen a drink like this before and would love to know what it is?

 

[NicknNora]

Darn, I posted too soon. I just tracked down the drink. It was a peach and the drink is a champagne cocktail. I'd never heard of using a whole peach like this before.

The most fun in watching this film, however, comes from the details: the hilarious decorating touches on the set (a ceramic dog sitting on a living room chair, a lamp out on a balcony that looks like sputnik has landed in the heart of Manhattan, and a Tiki bar straight out of, well, the '50s.) Ida Lupino, deep in concentration, absent-mindedly bites the side of her cocktail glass. George Sanders, demonstrating suave cocktail ettiquette, prepares a couple of champaign cocktails featuring an entire tennis ball sized peach in each glass. (I wondered, how does one consume such a drink without the peach bonking you smack in the nose?)

I'll leave the thread up in case using a peach like this is new to anyone else.

 

[NicknNora]

Has anyone ever made a champagne cocktail with a peach in it? How was it?

 

[BinkieBaumont]

The Vogue Cocktail book on page 16 has a similar recipe for a BELLINI

2 oz Peach Juice

4 oz Iced Champagne

Dash of Grenadine (if required), I think "I would add a dash of Cointreu"

Rumour has it that Commendatore Cipriani of a Venetian Hotel Company invented it for the premiere Venice Biennale

 

[The Wolf]

Sounds good.:essen:

Sincerely,
The Wolf

 

[Subvet642]

The Vogue Cocktail book on page 16 has a similar recipe for a BELLINI

2 oz Peach Juice

4 oz Iced Champagne

Dash of Grenadine (if required), I think "I would add a dash of Cointreu"

Why not peach schnapps?

 

[Mike in Seattle]

Has anyone ever made a champagne cocktail with a peach in it? How was it?

It was peachy...


Sorry, couldn't resist...

 

[John in Covina]

Peaches and champagne do go well together, my mom & dad made some when I was around 12 or so. Later they'd sub in Southern Comfort for the Peaches.

 

[Dexter'sDame]

Bellinis --Yum!

Sounds like an extremely lazy Bellini, LOL.

Bellinis are delicious. I made them for New Year's Eve a few years ago using Kern's Peach Nectar, as peaches were of course out of season...about an inch of well-chilled nectar (shake it first) into a tall champagne flute and topped off with icy cold Veuve Cliquot.

I also have a probably more authentic summer recipe that calls for white peaches, pureed in a food processor (with skins, but no pits), then strained and topped off with chilled prosecco in the same proportion as above.

 

[PoohBang]

Not quite the same as a fuzzy navel....

 

[NicknNora]

Sounds like an extremely lazy Bellini, LOL.

Bellinis are delicious. I made them for New Year's Eve a few years ago using Kern's Peach Nectar, as peaches were of course out of season...about an inch of well-chilled nectar (shake it first) into a tall champagne flute and topped off with icy cold Veuve Cliquot.

I also have a probably more authentic summer recipe that calls for white peaches, pureed in a food processor (with skins, but no pits), then strained and topped off with chilled prosecco in the same proportion as above.

Ooooohhh...Veuve Cliquot - my favorite champagne.:eusa_clap

 

[NicknNora]

Why not peach schnapps?

That sounds good.