"Millions Of Peaches, Peaches... To Can!!"

It is peach season finally! My husband bought us a 1/2 bushel of them in hopes of eating them all fresh. Just the two of us. Well, we all know how delicate peaches are so I figured I would give canning them a shot. (knowing they would end up going bad way to fast) Ends up canning is way, way easier than I thought it would be!

Here we go!

Equipement:

Jars, Rings, Lids, Hot water bath Pot, Small sauce pan, Medium Sauce pan, Large Sauce Pan, Small knife oh, and peaches.

Directions:

1) Have Peaches to Can

These are Early Alberta’s .

2) Bring water in a large pan to boil

a)While doing so, fill sink with cool water

Sorry, I forgot to take a picture before I started the process… oops!

b) Bring the small sauce pan of water to boil and place the canning lids into it.

c) Start making the liquid you want to place in with your peaches.

( I used leftover water from boiling my apples in, to make applesauce. Some people use organic apple juice. Or just plain water. I am sure you could make a maple syrup/water concoction and that would work. That is the point of the medium sauce pan. The reason why, in regular recipes, they add sugar to help the fruit not go brown as fast. They are still fine if they do, just less pleasing to the eye. Ok, lesson over. Hehe)

3) Then start putting the peaches in the boiling water for a couple of minutes.

4) Take them out of the boiling water and place them in the cool water in the sink.

This was an easier way for me to transfer them.

5) You can peel them, pit them, and place them back into the water.

The peel should come off amazingly easy.

Using the small knife you can cut in half to get the pit out.

The pit is pretty easy to remove.

And viola! That part is done!

6)Have the jars ready and then place the peaches into them.

I choose to use pints and I cut my peaches into 1/4ths You could also cut them smaller if you wanted

7) Then have your liquid ready to pour into the jars once filled.

Like I said earlier I used leftover apple juice water.

8) Clean off the tops of the jars (so the seal is clean).

I used a clean rag to do this.

9)Place the rings and lids on them.

I pick them up with a clean fork out of the hot water.

10) Place in hot water bath pan and let boil for 25 minutes for quarts and 20 minutes for pints.

Make sure the water covers the jars.

11) Once they are done boiling then you can place them on the counter to cool off and place them in a box to enjoy for later! Bam. Easy. Done. Awesome.

Hope you enjoy this experience as much as I did! Let me know what you guys think, or your experience/stories!