I found myself with another half milk crate full of peaches off the tree yesterday. So, today I decided to try a recipe I ran across the other day while browsing the internet and looking for things to make from all these peaches I have found my self with. We are butchering 20 chickens tomorrow and I have finals this week and I have tons more peaches on the tree so I had to use my free time today to preserve some of them so they do not go to waste. I thought peach "honey" would be something that would be not only tasty but something that we would actually use over the course of the year. I also liked the fact that I could use just the peels in order to make the recipe and that in doing so there would be no part of the fruit wasted.
I used the recipe for the peach honey from peels, although, because I have an abundance of peaches, I used the entire fruit and followed the directions (mostly) from here. My only deviation from the recipe was that I did not strain the mixture through a jam bag after boiling the fruit(peels) as I like the little bits of fruit in the honey. The recipe is very easy to follow as it is only 2 ingredients, the link has a good picture tutorial to go with the recipe and as far as food preservation goes it doe not take that long to whip out a batch. I love the color it turned out to be and can't wait to try some on a stack of sourdough pancakes.
Looks good! I am planning to make peach jam this year. I think I'll use the peels for peach honey!
ReplyDeletepeels, please
ReplyDeletepicky picky picky sheesh!
ReplyDeletethat looks great, dilli! I've been wanting another kind of fruit syrup & this will be it if I can get some good peaches.
ReplyDeleteThe site you linked for the directions looks good too, thanks!
how did your finals go? are you finished with your program already or just a semester?
Michelle finals are this week and it is just this semester.. 16 months to go lol. I do like the site I linked too, they have very easy to follow tutorials on there .. hope you are well !
ReplyDeleteI wish you well during your finals, dilli!
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the instructions, I think I am going to try the peach honey with less sugar by using the pectin.
thanks, I am well & enjoying the summer.