White peach and mint agua fresca

On hot summer days when it's too hot to eat, this is the drink I want to sip all day. Neither a soft drink nor a fruit juice, agua fresca, meaning ‘fresh water’ in Spanish, is a refreshing, subtly flavoured drink that is not too sweet. Agua frescas are sold by street vendors throughout Mexico and their carts are loaded with huge glass barrels of delicious thirst-quenching fruity flavours. You can use watermelon or strawberry, but my favourite is white peach. There is a gorgeous stone fruit farm in the next village from us and during the summer months, we gorge ourselves on cases of their peaches and nectarines. Make sure to adjust the sweetness to your taste and the ripeness of the fruit. Just remember, it’s around one part fruit to two parts water. You can also vary the recipe by adding mineral water, or even vodka or tequila if you want a grown-up version.