Friday, August 20, 2010

Celebrating the Gardens Bounty Week! Feeling Mighty Peachy!


It's peach season here in Ontario.  The peaches are bountiful, juicy and abundant in our local grocery store.
While I don't grow my own peaches, I do try to support and buy any and all Ontario grown produce, and preserve and eat it in season!  Here's a fantastic way to preserve the freshness of these wonderful fruits...

Spicy Spreadable Peaches

5 cups pitted, peeled diced peaches
4 tart apples, think granny smith
1 can undiluted, frozen apple juice concentrate (thawed)
2 Tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp grated lemon peel
1/2 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp nutmeg
5 250ml mason jars or 10 125ml sized mason jars.

I LOVE seeing the colours and fruit sitting altogether at the beginning of the process!

Place all ingredients in a large, stainless steel pot and bring to a boil.  Boil gently for 30 minutes, stirring occassionally or until spread reaches desired thickness.  Pour into your prepared, steralized mason jars within 1/4 inch of rim.  Wipe your rims clean and put on the lids.  Place in a water bath canner for 10 min.
Put on a counter and leave them alone for 24 hours before moving them!

Yum!!!  A couple hours of canning and now we have a pantry full of peaches!!!

*this recipe comes from the Bernardin Home Preserving book...it is well worth the $$ to buy this book for yourself...it is like my bible come harvest time!

You could also make these in the smaller mason jars...the 125 ml size.  I find that those size are perfect for putting into a Christmas basket.  I make several different jams and spreads in the 125ml size, and pair it with a loaf of fresh baked bread.  What a delightful gift to receive on a cold winters night!

And, just to make your spreadable peaches a little sweeter...here are some awesome free printable lables from  How About Orange that I recently came across.  I think they're awesome and would just make your preserves look even more amazing!

I'd love to know what you're putting away in other parts of the world!

xo maureen

8 comments:

  1. Yummy! Wish I checked here sooner. Just made some peach jam with what we had. I LOVE peaches. We went to the Guelph farmers market last week and bought beautiful tasty peaches.
    Too bad all these tastiest of fruits run their season so quickly!

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  2. Yum! We did peach jam too! I have to say though, I just tried out some of the spreadable peaches and they are to die for good!!!! Bookmark the recipe for next summer!
    xo maureen

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  3. Great, I preserve apples a lot as my husband works on an apple orchard. cheers Marie

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  4. Oh yum! This sounds great! i've been canning and freezing peaches all week, our trees are loaded! i'm getting ready to make a batch of jam, but have been looking for something something new to try. YUm!

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  5. oh yum! I love peaches but I will have to wait a while yet for Australian peach season to arrive here.

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  6. I'll have to try this. Sounds great and my children love peaches.

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  7. Looks tasty. We just finished up a pretty peachy week here too. :)

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  8. I'll have to try this with some of our yummy Georgia peaches!

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