Fruit Supreme With Pink Champagne

Ingredients

• 1 pint strawberries or 2 (16 ounce) packages frozen strawberries
• 2 large grapefruits
• 3 large navel oranges
• 1 (26 fluid ounce) bottle pink champagne
• 1 (8 ounce) package pitted dates
• halved or 12 lb fresh dates
• pitted and halved
• 2 pints lemon sherbet

Instructions

1. Wash fresh strawberries; drain.
2. Remove hulls; cut any large berries in half.
3. Peel and section grapefruit and oranges.
4. Refrigerate fruit until it is well chilled-about 2 hours.
5. (if using frozen berries, thaw and drain).Also refrigerate champagne until ready to use.
6. Combine fruit and dates in a large bowl; toss lightly.
7. Arrange fruit mixture in 12 dessert dishes.
8. Top each serving with a small scoop of lemon sherbet.
9. Pour some of the champagne over each serving.
10. Serve at once; add rest of champagne as needed.