I just tasted a bit of summer!
Posted by: TammyWe canned peaches for the first time this past summer. I LOVE peaches! Our local orchard has a pick-your-own option that helps keep the cost down. I love a sun-warmed peach that is ripened to perfection on the tree. When you bite into it, the juice runs down your chin. sigh….. just heavenly!
Anyways, I digress. My oldest boys helped me can up our peaches. The assembly line approach helped us speed things along but it was still a learning experience trying to pack the peaches correctly. In the end, our jars of peaches looked so beautiful but I wasn’t sure I wasn’t better off just buying them at Aldis.
Well, my husband is adding more shelving to our pantry and I had to pull out all of my canned goods. We decided that we had waited long enough and opened up a jar of the peaches. Oh my gosh! FANTASTIC! The boys and I devoured the quart jar in a matter of seconds. I thought I’d use the light syrup that now tastes of the peaches for smoothies but truthfully, it’s gone, too. I was just like that juice that runs down your chin in the summer. The boys and I decided that the time and labor was totally worth the enjoyment we got out of just that one jar! Granted, we have more to use up but it’s going to be hard rationing them out until this summer’s harvest.
I feel like I’ve tasted summer.
- Tags: canning peaches, homemade peaches
March 24th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Canning peaches totally brings out the flavor, doesn’t it? I know many will say nothing beats fresh, but I don’t know.
The flavor in home canned sort of smacks you in the head. YUM