Strawberry Champagne Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

10 ounces champagne
2 pints strawberries, washed,cleaned of stems,and halved
4 ounces water
8 ounces orange juice
1/2 cup sugar
1 cinnamon stick
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
8 green peppercorns
2 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon lemon juice

Preparation

Bring water, orange juice, sugar, cinnamon stick, salt, honey and green peppercorns to a simmer.
Let stand for one hour.
Strain mixture through a fine-meshed strainer and pour over the strawberries.
Put the strawberries in a blender.
Puree until mixture is smooth.
Stir in the lemon juice and champagne.
Serve chilled.