How to keep peaches for later use?

[Cat_w_9_lives]

Anybody know of a good way to keep peaches. MI peaches are my favorite fruit and now that I have my stash of peaches...looking for a way to keep them. Is my only choice bottling them and if so does anyone have easy directions to do so? I want to be able to make peach pie, cobbler and such with them later. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance for any advise.

Cat

[Remoc]

My Mother used to can Peaches and almost everything else that you could imagine.
The canned Peaches made some unbelievable Peach Cobblers when it turned cold. :drool

http://www.dinnerplanner.com/canning_peaches.htm.

[Doc13%]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvAnQqVJ3XQ :guitar

[bigbazza]

Hi, Google to the rescue again.

Enter Bottling peaches and /or Canning peaches for lots of links and info.

One I tried under Bootling peaches returned Bottling/Canning
http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=30009

Hope you find what you are looking for. ;)

Bazza

[Cat_w_9_lives]

Thank you will have to hunt down the "Fruit Fresh" ingredient, a friend has the jars...looks pretty easy. Grandma use to do it too, but I never paid much attn.

@ Doc, I can listen to your song while bottling :wave

[Remoc]

Here ya go :-D

http://www.fruit-fresh.com/

[Cat_w_9_lives]

Here ya go :-D

http://www.fruit-fresh.com/

Thank you very much...small world, that co. is one of our vendors and have contacts there :-D

[hulkster]

We've had a monster peach crop this year - despite a pesky squirrel that has been eating 'em (http://www.komar.org/bbq/bbq_grill_recipes/peach-ice-cream/squirrels/) - and our approach is to de-skin 'em, slice 'em into bits, and stuff into a ziplock bag which then goes in the freezer. We then pull 'em out over the course of the year and then we are all set to make peach ice cream (http://www.komar.org/bbq/bbq_grill_recipes/peach-ice-cream/), cobbler, shakes, etc.

http://www.komar.org/bbq/bbq_grill_recipes/peach-ice-cream/squirrels/2008_08_28_2238_peach_squirrel.jpg


This is only *SOME* of the peaches - really incredible how many we have.

http://www.komar.org/bbq/bbq_grill_recipes/peach-ice-cream/squirrels/2008_09_06_3497_picked_peaches.jpg

[Cat_w_9_lives]

WOW you hit the peach motherload! Need a separate freezer just for them. I see your squirrel knows a good thing when he/she sees it, cute. Do you put in boiling water to skin or just peel them? Will try freezing some too.

[Triaxx2]

You have to peel them, so you can remove the pits.

[chaimjm]

Just google-ing while eating my lunch ..no not peaches :-D

Laast year I had a bunch of peaches that were starting to shrivel, so I blended them with some simple syrup, a little citric acid, and a lot of tequila. Then I froze it most of the way in the blender jar, blended it again, added some more tequila, and put it back in the freezer for a little bit. It was so wonderful-tasting I couldn't believe it, and it takes more blended peaches than you'd think to fill up a blender jar. If you add enough tequila (you could use rum, too) it won't freeze solid and you can just buzz it again before you pour and then just store it in the freezer (if there's any left over- I never had that problem, sadly).


How about grilling them. The next time you grill out place them face down on the grill. Their flavor will intensify and they'll get a little caramelized, and they look great with grill marks.


this looks real good.. Peach Cobbler
http://www.stephencooks.com/2006/07/peach_cobbler_.html

and if you still have 24,000 peaches left over you can create one of these

http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2008-02/ella-peach.jpg

[hulkster]

WOW you hit the peach motherload! Need a separate freezer just for them. I see your squirrel knows a good thing when he/she sees it, cute. Do you put in boiling water to skin or just peel them? Will try freezing some too.

Last year, we did the "soak in boiling water" approach which does work quite well. However, those were huge and well-formed ... whereas so many of these have "damage" on 'em from the squirrel and/or falling on the rocks that we just hand peel'ed 'em this year.

Here's a picture of half of the tree ... some branches had already broken. I had pruned hundreds of peaches earlier in the season, but should have done more.

http://www.komar.org/bbq/bbq_grill_recipes/peach-ice-cream/squirrels/2008_08_29_2282_peach_tree.jpg

[musksnipe]

Anybody know of a good way to keep peaches. MI peaches are my favorite fruit and now that I have my stash of peaches..

CatI have never been able to keep Michigan peaches around for more than a few days.
They're too good !! ;)

[Cat_w_9_lives]

I have never been able to keep Michigan peaches around for more than a few days.
They're too good !! ;)

This is a big problem, people are getting at my stash!!!! And why do we have tons of CA peaches when MI is right next door to us??? You need to grow more peaches in MI, this in unacceptable :p

@ Fred, Hulkster at the rate their eating my stash, there will be none left over.

@ Hulkster, why did the tree break? just curious...

[Fred_G]

So who is making peach ice cream? :-D

E

[hulkster]

So who is making peach ice cream? :-D

E
Peach Ice Cream Recipe/How-To (http://www.komar.org/bbq/bbq_grill_recipes/peach-ice-cream/) - YUMMM!

http://www.komar.org/bbq/bbq_grill_recipes/peach-ice-cream/peach-ingredients.jpghttp://www.komar.org/bbq/bbq_grill_recipes/peach-ice-cream/whipping-cream/pour-peaches-1.jpg