Peaches were on sale the other day. So I went and bought a ton to bring home and can. . . until I got home and decided that sounded really boring.
I wanted to do something fun and fulfilling. So I made a batch of delicious fresh peach syrup for pancakes and waffles, and canned that.
(It's also delicious on ice cream--just sayin'.)
I found a packet of freezer jam pectin leftover from some previous venture and used that to make a batch of peach freezer jam.
Then I chopped up a bunch of peaches with lemon juice and sugar to eat over ice cream and cheerios.
And finally I canned 7 quarts of peaches to tuck away in our cupboard.
I sliced a couple for the boys to eat fresh. But then there were one or two that went bad quickly in our un-air-conditioned kitchen.
This week the peaches are not on such a great sale, but I did buy one more bag to make into baby food for this winter. (My baby really wants some food to eat!)
It's good, I feel productive. I like knowing there's no high-fructose corn syrup in my family's jelly. But my favorite project was definitely the peach syrup.
2 comments:
Yummy! It all looks beautiful!
I just made some peach freezer jam recently too! Mine were gifts from a friends backyard - they are very
"organic" ..meaning they don't spray so you need 3 times as many once you cut out all the bad spots!
And what a great idea to make the baby food!
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