Last Saturday we went up to Denver and picked up 2 boxes that looked like this.
MMMMM, nothing quite like the sweet smell of FRESH peaches in a hot house in August.
Yesterday we hauled up the necessary number of pint jars.
I love the look of those jars all lined up and waiting to receive the peachy, syrupy goodness.....
And here they are .... we got 18 pints of peach halves in medium syrup.
The point of this exercise is our own little family canning project: my sister gets the peaches from the Knights of Columbus in their parish that use it for a fund raiser every year; my DH & I (mostly the DH, his hands handle the heat much better than mine) put up the peaches and we give a lot of them to my folks, especially my dad....
There were a few of the peaches that had major bruising. We never throw anything away that we can use, so the bad spots get cut out and the rest get made into peach jam.
There are 13 half pints of this yummy stuff! We'll be taking some of that to my dad too.
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