What to do with Extra Peaches?
Beyond giving them away.
I am about to be the recipient of apprx. 800 - 1K of Peaches here in the next few weeks. Trees are absolutely loaded down.
I'd like to maintain/preserve some.
What is the best way to do so?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I am about to be the recipient of apprx. 800 - 1K of Peaches here in the next few weeks. Trees are absolutely loaded down.
I'd like to maintain/preserve some.
What is the best way to do so?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Peel and drop a few in a big ol' jar of corn likker. Let 'em soak for a week or so in the fridge. 0 -
grdad45 wrote:Peel and drop a few in a big ol' jar of corn likker. Let 'em soak for a week or so in the fridge.
We are on the same track my Brother.
Pretty much what I have envisioned.
I am about to have Way too many Peaches.
Trees are touching the ground. Loaded down.0 -
jelly/jam
pies
cobbler
sliced on ice cream
dehydrated0 -
Get yourself a big straw hat and a pair of coveralls, no shirt, and sell them beside the road. It would help if you could find a couple of good looking young women in bathing suits to help. Are there any good looking women in Tenn.???? No problem just try to find a couple with most of their teeth that aren't chewing tobacco at the time. Good luck and if I can help let me know. Your friend, Ricci. 0 -
I would cook some of them and peel the skins off. Then continue cooking down into a nice tender peach sauce. You can check the sauce for sweetness and add any needed sugar or use some honey instead.
Cool down and bag into quality heavy duty freezer bags. Keep for adding to a lot of different dishes and deserts!
I just got done doing same with a large batch of fresh blue berries. I added a small amount of lemon juice, sugar, and thickened with just a tad bit of corn starch. mmmmmmmmm?..mmmmmmm?.Gooooooood! :P
P.S. Save some for fresh eating while they hold up.0 -
Ken, make sure you dig up that old song "Millions of peaches" Peaches for me....Millions of peaches....peaches for free....
and sing along as you slave over a hot stove in a hot kitchen! The sweat running off your head into the batch should add just enough salt to the mix!0 -
"Dehydrated."
Winner, winner, Chicken dinner.
I have a commercial deydrator. I appreciate the insight.
Going to get a work out.0 -
The scent of white peaches caught me the other day at Safeway which made me stop and smell them. Knew better than to buy them. They're great for the nose but not so good in the mouth. If you're wondering I buy canned.
Tree ripened I'd eat them until I pee out of my butt.
800 pieces? That's a lot to drown in booze. You might get two in a Mason jar split in halves. You might try a few Japanese style. There is a liquor Ume-Shu basically Ume (the fruit) "white" rock candy (sugar) some with brown/yellow ting will color the end product, and booze (clear kind). In a Mason jar half a peach (as in one), throw in a handful of rock candy. If I recall rock candy will not cloud up the liquor? I know my grandma never used the granulated stuff. Vodka that does not have a "wang" to it like Finlandia, Fris or surprisingly good and cheap Russian Shot. Let it sit like half a year with you turning the jar every now and again to distribute the sugared liquor without mashing the fruit. As in be gentile. If you use whiskey or rum the color of the rock candy don't matter.
Oh Ume-Shu typically runs in the 35/40 proof range so 80 proof so cut it with soda? Figure by next summer you got something nice to sip on over ice. As for the fruit, slice over ice cream for a boozy treat.0 -
KenK/84Bravo wrote:"Dehydrated."
Winner, winner, Chicken dinner.
I have a commercial deydrator. I appreciate the insight.
Going to get a work out.0 -
If you put a fan blowing out your kitchen window while you are cooking down your peaches, you will attract gals from Georgia that may be passing by! 0 -
Brookwood wrote:If you put a fan blowing out your kitchen window while you are cooking down your peaches, you will attract gals from Georgia that may be passing by!
Not looking to attract them toothless GA./NC./VA. Women's.
You can have them.0 -
Peel them raw..not cooked... Cut in 1/4's or 8ths Sugar them down and pop them in the freezer..They'll last 'til the next picking....
JIM...............0 -
JIM STARK wrote:Peel them raw..not cooked... Cut in 1/4's or 8ths Sugar them down and pop them in the freezer..They'll last 'til the next picking....
JIM...............
Another good thought.
Thank you Jim.0 -
We eat what we can and can what we can't. Don 0 -
Brandy
My trees are loaded as well.
A couple years ago I had a bumper crop of apples so I made Apple Brandy. It turned out great.
I'm already planning Peach Brandy this fall.
Don't distill it - that is illegal! Concentrate it.
I make "wine" then put it in the freezer in plastic buckets. Once a day I stir it and skim off the ice (Water freezes - Alcohol does not).
When the taste is to my liking....yum yum. You ever had a brandy icee on a hot day?0 -
Feed them to your Dog. :twisted: 0 -
Aside from whatever canning recipe you decide on, advertise to have folks pick their own for donations or??? 0 -
Give them away 0 -
select-fire wrote:Give them away
Yes, I am sure I will be doing quite a bit of that.0 -
peach tacos.................... 0 -
deer bait,,, 0 -
Sounds to me like you got alot of targets! 0 -
My parents bought a house that was very close to a self-sustaining farm at one time. 7 acres tillable, peach and apple trees, big garden space, chicken coup, barn, raspberries in the fence row, a gooseberry bush, paw paw tree (Indiana bananas), persimmon trees, the only plumbing was a hand pump on a well in the back room, a cistern, and an outhouse.
Anyway the talk of peaches set me to reminiscing, those little white peaches were the best I ever tasted.0 -
use the overripe ones, peel and put in blender/food processor make peachsauce, put on ice cream or put in ice cream to make peach ice cream.......... other uses also 0 -
55 gallon plastic drum, 3 bushel of peaches, 100 pound of sugar, one cake of yeast, fill with water, cover and let set for a month. strain, bottle and enjoy, OR you could turn it into something else 0 -
jwb267 wrote:55 gallon plastic drum, 3 bushel of peaches, 100 pound of sugar, one cake of yeast, fill with water, cover and let set for a month. strain, bottle and enjoy, OR you could turn it into something else
Hhmmnn, I just so happen to have about 3 such plastic barrels. I'm assuming peaches peeled and pitted?0 -
try as i may, i can't remember having an abundance of peaches. whether i buy 6 or a bushel they are eaten fresh till gone. breakfast, snacks, lunch or supply. then cry cause i once again have none. 0 -
For a couple yrs I have used grain alcohol and made some great fruit concoctions. The fresh fruit would leave it cloudy with stuff I didn't want and strained out, with considerable effort. Now only dried fruit is used. I read a little and it seems pectin is the problem. 0 -
KenK/84Bravo wrote:jwb267 wrote:55 gallon plastic drum, 3 bushel of peaches, 100 pound of sugar, one cake of yeast, fill with water, cover and let set for a month. strain, bottle and enjoy, OR you could turn it into something else
Hhmmnn, I just so happen to have about 3 such plastic barrels. I'm assuming peaches peeled and pitted?
I never peel mine. I let them get dead ripe and squeeze the pit out of them0 -
I have to admit that tree ripened peaches are the BEST! The local big big super market has peaches on sale this week imported from the south. I was going to pick up several pounds until I checked them out. They were harder than a marble counter top!!
On the other hand, banana's sure are cheap lately! Only 29 cents a pound and they actually will ripen properly after they are picked!0
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