Cocktails with Peach purée
Peach purée is peach flesh blended and sieved smooth, added to drinks as a fruit base.
Substitutes for Peach purée
Fresh fruit blended and sieved is the same thing to order, and it needs lemon immediately or it browns while you work. Body is what separates it from a juice, and sweetened bar purées put the recipe out by a barspoon or more.
Often confused with
Peach nectar
Purée let down with water and sweetened, sold to drink, and using it where purée was meant leaves a Bellini thin and flat.
White and yellow peach purée
White is floral and delicate, yellow is fuller and more acidic. A Bellini written for white peach tastes coarse made with yellow, and the label rarely says which is in the tub.
Storage
Fresh keeps a couple of days refrigerated and freezes well in portions. It browns at the surface as it oxidizes, which a squeeze of lemon slows. Commercial keeps to its date and belongs in the fridge once open.
