Ingredients
- About 12 Fresh Peaches (or 4 peaches per a quart sized jar)
- 1/4 cup of Lemon juice (or your favorite Fruit Fruit-Fresh Produce Protector)
Simple Syrup
- 2 cups Sugar
- 6 cups Water
- (yield: 7 cups light simple syrup... add more sugar if you want a medium or heavy syrup, see chart above)
Instructions
Prior to Canning:
- Select peaches that are sweet and ripe.
- Place your jars and rings into a dishwasher on the sterilize setting.
- Place the lids in a small saucepan and heat to a simmer, but don’t boil.
To Can Peaches:
- Place rinsed peaches into a pot of boiling water and blanch for 30 to 60 seconds.
- After blanching, place them into a ice water bath to keep them from cooking.
- Pull the peels off the peaches
- Cut the peaches and remove the pits
- Cut out any brown spots and mushy areas.
- Sprinkle 1/4 cup lemon juice or Fruit-Fresh Produce Protector over a bowl full of peaches (to keep them from going brown)
- Stir the peaches to make sure all the surfaces have been coated.
- Put your cut peaches pit side down into hot, sterilized bottles.
- Fill bottles with peaches to the line of the lip of the bottle (where the curve ends).
- You can pack peaches fairly tight, without squishing them.
- Carefully pour the hot syrup into the bottles until your peaches are covered.
- Leave a 1/2 inch of head space at the top of the bottle.
- With a butter knife, slide down each side of the bottle to remove any air bubbles.
- Use a clean damp cloth and wipe around the rim of your bottle, place lid and screw on the ring
- Place the jars on the Steam canner being careful to avoid the holes or into a hot water bath.
- Process quarts for 20 minutes (+ any altitude time adjustments).
- Processing time begins once you see steam coming out of the hole in the lid or in a hot water bath
- Lift jars off of the steam canner or out of the hot water bath with a jar lifter and move them to a draft free location to let them cool (usually overnight)
- Make sure jars aren't touching or bumping
- Once cooled, store all sealed cans in long term storage. Any unsealed cans (you'll hear a popping sound when you press on the lid), should be placed in the fridge and consumed in the next few days.
Simple Syrup
- Add the desired amounts of sugar for syrup.
- Bring to a simmer in a medium saucepan.