20Aug 07
A peachy month!
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Around this time of year as summer is coming quickly to a close and fall is approaching quite rapidly, canning seems to come to the forefronts of the Wilkes Team minds. Seeing peaches, apples, green beans, tomatoes, grapes etc. just seems to get us all excited about gathering and canning!
Before she passed away, Mommom ( mom’s mom) was always canning somthing and getting us to help her in the process when we were little. Grandpa and Grandma have told such fascinating stories about their growing up years living on farms and how they would provide just about all their food from off the land they tilled. We don’t want these next generations to lose these basic skills that our great grandparents and grandparents knew. We need to take action and ask them questions and seek them out and learn from them.
Each and everyone of us are blessed with ones that have gone before us yet we seem to take them for granted. It is not until they are gone that we realize we did not take the time to glean from their wealth of knowledge. So lets take the time and learn from those who have gone before us! And if you have never learned to can fruits, meats and veggies here’s a great opportunity for you to ask your great grandma, grandma, or mom how they did it! I’m sure you will have a blast doing it, and maybe this could be your first recipie??
Peach Butter
18 medium peachers
4 cups of sugar
Wash and blanch peaches. Peel, pit, and slice in peaches in half. Put them in blender until it reaches the consistence you want (Chunky to very smooth).
Put blended peaches in a large pot. Add the sugar. Cook until thick enough to round up on a spoon. As mixture thickens, stir frequentily to prevent sticking. Ladle hot peach butter into hot jars, leaving 1/4-inch. headspace. Adjust two-piece caps. Process 10 min. in a boiling-water canner. It yields about 4 pints.
Mmmmm! Thanks for sharing this old-time family recipe. You are so right, Jenny, we need to take the time to glean from the priceless wealth of knowledge of those who have gone before us.
One time a good while ago we went peach picking as a family. I remember sinking my teeth into a tender, juicy, luscious peach and making up my mind right then and there that peach picking even topped apple picking!
Picking peaches with Grandpa was indeed an afternoon I won’t forget! And I can sure remember those memorable afternoons making applesauce with Mommom. Mom has emphasized often how much she learned from her parents through simply quietly watching and be ready to help. Thank you for the reminder Jennifer!
Praise the Lord for the Godly legacies passed down, and may we be ready to pass them down to future generations.
There’s something special about harvesting fruit, and preserving the harvest, isn’t there? It’s been part of human life since the very beginning. Dad was just telling us this morning to be sure to record the things we learn from Scripture. These jems are even more precious than the food we depend on, and to forget them is like letting a harvest go to waste. It takes some careful work though, doesn’t it, to record our insights in a way that they will be there when we need them later. And I am glad that God put an element of delight and fun into the important things we must do.
Those are mighty big peaches you have there, Sarah! Would anyone happen to know the cultivar name of those trees? ‘Monroe’ perhaps? A tree is known by its fruit. Don’t expect to be able to raise the same fruit without the same tree.
Oh, the joy of peach picking! I can just feel the naturally fuzzy outside of the orchard-picked peaches in that first picture. Have fun canning!