Canning Peaches

[TurtleMama]

Hi y'all!

 

Okay, my family and I are about to leave to go pick peaches!! We'll probably come back with a few boxes full and I was wondering if anyone would mind PM-ing me their recipe for canning quarts of peaches in a boiling water bath canner? I would be MOST grateful...thanks so much in advance. I appreciate the help since I don't have a Ball Blue Book yet and don't want to risk just getting a recipe off the internet...could be unreliable.

 

Here we go, hopefully there'll be no little in the peach orchards!! LOLOL

 

 

[Violet]

If you will bookmark this site, you will not need the Ball Blue Book until you can find one.

This has all the basic help, plus lots of recipes, etc. This is the leading authority on home preservation.

The Ball Book is good, too, so you have different recipes, but you can get all the safety things from the Univ. of Georgia.

http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/index.html

Canning peaches:

http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/how/can_02/peach_sliced.html

I prefer raw pack because they taste less "cooked". You may have more floating of the fruit, though in a raw pack. You hot pack to "preshrink" the food and get more in a jar.

 

[TurtleMama]

Thanks, Violet! -- and those of you who sent me messages...I appreciate it so much. I wound up not canning the peach slices, because the variety we got were small and I couldn't get pretty slices..they kinda just mushed when I cut them...so I'm going to be making peach jam instead!!! And there'll be a LOT of jam! hehehe Too bad I can't hand some out here on Mrs. S.! Thanks again, everyone... *hugs*