Peaches, Peaches and more peaches!

So I was feeling very domestic today as I endeavored to make my own Peach Jam. I went out with the kids and picked two more bowls of peaches to add onto the many bowls sitting on our counter, just waiting to have something done with!




I blanched them and peeled them and pitten them, and when I was done with that process I figured it was about 200 peaches! And then of course after I cleaned up that mess I realized that i forgot a whole bowl of peaches!






Here are my peeled peaches. They were pretty small peaches, about the sizes of apricots, but I had never seen peaches peeled this way before and never thought that the coloring stays even when the peel is gone!



When I finished dicing all those peaches I had two huge bowls full!! I made my first batch of freezer jam and didn't realize how much it made from so small amount of peaches. I freaked out! What was I going to do with all these peaches! I was out of pectin already, and nearly out of Sugar! Duck saved my butt though and ran and got me tonz more sugar and pectin. I still in the end ran low on pectin and had to do triple the peaches for double the pectin, so I pray it worked. But I just did that one batch of freezer jam and cooked and canned the rest.






In the end I have 3 tupperwear, and 6 baby jars (for gifts) of freezer jam and about 20 pint size jars of canned jam. Actually about 6 of them I changed the recipe to possibly be a pie filling. I didn't use the exact recipe I used on line so we'll see if it works. All in all, I'm done canning for awhile!