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Monday, August 19, 2013

Canned gold, at least in my house

I have never canned peaches before. I recently bought a 20lb box of peaches with that exact goal in mind. I got my peaches, they were so lovely and perfect. I was surprised to see that 20lbs wasn't that many. But, I had a goal, can the peaches and put them in my ever growing food storage. Then came some small challenges. The first one being, my husband LOVES peaches. He ate three of them within hours. My second challenge was, I have a glass top stove and the 2 pans I have to can in don't come to and hold a boil on it. The pans are just too big and my glass top was meant to look pretty (my theory). This was not stopping me though. I wanted to learn how to can peaches and darn it, I was going to do it, even with my husband eating all the peaches and not having a proper stove to can them on.
I truly love my church family, they are all amazing. If you need any kind of help, they will be there. So, I called a lady that I knew was a canning peaches kind of woman. She was more then happy to help me. So with my now 16 lbs of peaches and my case of quart jars in arm, my oldest daughter and I went over to a wonderful lady's house where we spent the afternoon canning ours and her peaches. We had a great time and it was so easy. Even my daughter who is 18 and hates everything domestic, liked canning.


We took our peaches home, 1 DOZEN sized quart jars FULL of delicious peaches. I had to fight the children off. They too love peaches and they wanted to open one of the still hot jars.
Later that night, we had a few people come visit us from our church and I couldn't let them leave empty handed so I sent 2 of our beautiful jars with them.We still have 10, but after breakfast this morning we will still have 8. What can I say, they call us, lure us with their golden deliciousness

Oh yes, canned peaches are a beautiful thing

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