This is the harvest from our big peach tree. I even weighed them - over 200 pounds. Pretty unbelievable, isn't it??? Factor in the fact that I thinned over 50 percent of the peaches off the tree when they were about the size of an olive. One branch on the tree was completely unreachable, even with a ladder, so it didn't get thinned and yep, it broke under the weight of the peaches. Oh, and I harvested about 30 additional pounds from the baby peach tree. Yikes! After convincing my children that they needed to eat some, I started processing.
Remember the empty freezer? It's not so empty any more. I sliced thirty oversize quarts worth of peaches to go into the formerly empty cavern. (I usually process peaches into 5 cup 'quarts' as after the juice is drained, there's just enough peaches for most recipes.)
Then I fired up the canner. First day, I made 'sploosh' for Ben...
He was a bit disappointed with the flavor, thought it was a bit weak compared to the apricot sploosh that he'd been drinking from past years. So, I tweaked the recipe a bit. On the next canning day, I went all out...
Ten quarts of sploosh and seven quarts of peach halves in extra light syrup. Whew! What a day! Makes for a pretty picture, though, I think. I hadn't canned peach halves in a long time, so I thought it was time to refresh my skills.
I also made three peach pies, but forgot to get a picture before we ate one and put two into the freezer. In addition, I've sliced up about three gallons of peaches that have gone into the fridge and then mysteriously disappeared. Apparently Yehudi likes peaches.
After I rest a bit, I'll post about all the other goodies I've made lately.
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