Busy Oz Mum
2006-Jan-15
Peaches for preserves
A friend had us come over and pick as many peaches as we wanted from her very heavily laden tree. They are not quite ripe but the birds have discovered her trees and are viciously attacking the fruit and so we really needed to get what we could off the tree. They demolished all the fruit on her plum trees a week earlier and had moved onto her peach tree. I have a nice big bag of very firm peaches. Probably a good week off being ripe. She told me she's been stewing them with just a little sugar and eating them on her breakfast cereal. I could do that with a few of them but would like to bottle (can) the rest in some sort of way. I may even just stew the whole lot and preserve them in bottles that way. I haven't ever done peaches before so I'm not really sure which way I'll go with them. I've mostly only made jams in the past. Hmmm, lots of food for thought. I might have to surf the 'net a bit and see what I can come up with.

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2006-Jan-18 - Yummy!

Posted by simplegirl


My friend and I canned peaches this summer. We used a recipe from the book Preserving Nature's Bounty (I think it was that book anyway). Most of the canning recipes use honey instead of sugar. Eating those peaches on a chilly winter day makes me think of summer!


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2006-Mar-10 - Peaches

Posted by MyThreeDaughters


There was a week here too where the birds got into everything. They ate the sunflowers and our caterpillars that were supposed to turn into butterflies. Then after that they weren't so bad.

I am 42 as well. When we were first married we bottled peaches alot. We had a peach that was good for preserving. Was yours a hard peach?

I don't remember which recipe we used, but I am sure dh could find it if you like.

They are very good with breakfast.


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