Something About Nothing

I showed you these when I picked them a while back. They were delicious - and still are delicious because I bottled them. My friend Marie wants to learn to bottle fruit so I took pictures of the process to help her along. The offical instructions for canning peaches can be found here   and I'm just adding some pictures to help out with the visuals.  Sometimes the instructions can be a bit vague if you haven't done this before. Always  use a USDA approved recipe to keep your family safe and healthy and use a water bath canner.  Steam canners have been deemed unsafe because they do not keep the temperature consistent. The first thing to do is to remove the peach skins.  We do this by blanching the peaches in boiling water for about 30 - 60 seconds.  Quickly remove the peaches from the boiling water and plop them into a sink full of cold water. I cut my peaches in half before slipping the skin after they've be...

One of my peach trees is almost dead, but still producing to the end. The other tree is also producing like gang busters.  I just went out and picked this apple box full of peaches. There are still a lot of peaches on the tree too. Now that I've caught my breath from going up and down the ladder it's time to skin and bottle these babies.