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Amanda's Cold Melon Soup

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Served with Censored 1999.

Source: SOAR.Berkley.EDU Searchable Online Archive of Recipes and tweaked by Amanda:

Ingredients: 

6 cups coarsely chopped honeydew 
2 cups lemonade 
3 tablespoons honey 
2 cups dry champagne
Whipping cream 
fresh mint leaves for garnish.

Directions: Finely chop half (3 cups) of the melon and set aside. Place the remaining coarsely chopped melon, lemonade and honey in a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into a large bowl. Stir in champagne and the reserved melon. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.

Amanda's notes: The original recipe calls for half honeydew and half cantaloupe (so, 3 cups of each) and 1 1/2 cups of each of these is chopped fine and set aside. I used a whole honeydew and got 10 cups of fruit, so I didn't bother with the cantaloupe.

The original recipe also used fresh orange juice instead of the lemonade.

The original recipe calls for iced bowls. I'm sure they would have liked me to serve it in fine crystal as well :P

Since the champagne is the ingredient that you will probably be most limited by, a regular sized bottle of champagne yields just under 2 cups of liquid - suitable for a batch using about 10 cups of fruit.

It appears that with the proportions in this recipe the number of servings produced is about the same as the number of cups of fruit you put in.

Last updated: November 21, 2000.