It’s been a long, long time since I canned a lot of peaches because when the peaches are in the stores, that’s about the time my tomatoes are producing and I’m busy canning them but, with few tomatoes to can, and peaches on sale in the grocery stores, I’ve been canning peaches. Last week, or maybe week before, United had Comanche peaches for I think it was 77 cents/pound and we bought a little over 20 pounds. Between the peaches from our trees and the peaches, we bought, I think I put up a total of 25 pints . . 18 pints in jars and 7 pints in the freezer. We ate quite a few of those peaches before they ever got put up . . they were all so good.
Over the weekend, I put a jar in the freezer and let it just begin to get a bit icy and when we ate them, Vince said “We need more of these!”
Kroger had peaches on sale this week for 97 cents/pound so we bought 40 pounds. They were a little hard so I spread them out in the extra bedroom, on both sides of the bed, and left them til this morning.
At 6:15 this morning, I began canning peaches and by 11:30, I had 56 pints canned.
There are a few more than 56 jars there but I had a partial case of canned peaches left from last week so I filled that up, and I had 7 pints of basil/garlic tomato sauce I had made over the weekend so this evening after dinner, I’ll drive the RTV over to the porch, pick up all the cases and drive them over to the sewing room . . instead of hand carrying 6 cases of jars over there.
It’s nice to have some time to can things besides tomatoes but I’m sure going to miss having all those jars of tomatoes this winter when it comes time to make soups and stews.
PattiLynn says
Your peaches look sooo tempting!
A couple of wks ago we bought a big bag of freestone Georgia peaches from Sprouts for .48 lb. They were so juicy and ripe, we ate and ate. We went back and bought another big bag. About 3 days after the second bag, I broke out in a itchy red rash all over. Ugh! Seems like I had an allergic reaction. I’m soooo bummed…but not terribly surprised as I’m allergic to nectarines and tangerines. Think it’s the citric acid.
Speaking of canning tomatoes. Have you ever canned tomato preserves. I remember my mom making tomato preserves with a slice of lemon in each jar. Was some gooood eating!
Erin says
They look delicious! I just made 12 pints of strawberry jam – we went strawberry picking and had too many to eat at once! I haven’t tried canning peaches! Maybe I will!!!
Sharon Engel says
The peaches here in Colorado are about 10 days early and a bumper crop. Nice to see for the fruit farmers, and they are yummy.
Diana G says
They look so good and inviting,the peaches are just starting to come in here. So I will be buying peaches and canning them as well as freezing some for smoothies.
I live in an area where the peaches are so handy this time of year, as well as the sweet corn.