Subj : Pick Your Own
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Wed Feb 22 2023 15:08:56

Hi Dave,


 DD>       Title: Summer's Best Peach Butter
 DD>  Categories: Fruits, Citrus, Herbs
 DD>       Yield: 5 Cups

 RH> All you have to do is cut up fresh peaches, cook them down soft and
 RH> thick in a bit of water, add sugar to taste and can in half pint
 RH> (jelly) jars. IIRC, we did a boiling water bath proccessi ng, maybe 10
 RH> or 15 minutes. Easy as all get out. Spices, et.al. can be added, but
 RH> not really neccessay, IMO.

 DD> Spices *are* necessary unless you're making peach jam.

All a matter of taste. We like it without the spices but obviously your
taste is different. I'll have to hunt up the recipe from the Ball Blue
Book and one that a friend gave me, see if either of them use spices,
but will continue to make it my way. We did try canning some peaches
with spices--turned out good--but over all, prefer peaches without
spices. I can mine in very light syrup, did do a batch some years ago
without any extra sweetening because the peaches were so sweet. For me,
peach jam is just sugar, peaches, sure jel and maybe a bit of water.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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