Inexpensive champange works fine for this recipe — save the good stuff for drinking with fine food.
sorbet au champagne
250 milliliters  dry champagne
80 milliliters  water
40 milliliters  strained orange juice
60 grams  sifted powdered sugar
1.   Combine all the ingredients in a small saucepan and gently heat until the sugar dissolves. Chill.
2.   Freeze mixture in an ice cream machine. Harden in a freezer.
3.   Move the sorbet to a refrigerator for a few minutes before serving.
Yield: about 4 servings.
Source: adapted from Le Cordon Bleu at Home, page 237.


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