Peach butter is like apple butter. But sunny and peachy keen.
Today’s recipe is slightly modified from Pick Your Own, a wonderful resource for great basic canning recipes as well as information on freezing produce and finding pick-your-own farms. However, we halved the recipe, reduced the sugar and added a little extra spice.
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We love peach jam at our house. Likewise, it’s a great way to preserve summer fruit to enjoy for months to come. The process is very similar for many fruits. Most canning recipes for fruit include adding sugar. We like to use a low-sugar recipe and pectin for jam making. This means we aren’t adding quite so much sugar to our diets and the jam has more of that delicious fruit flavor!
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Decadent. Delicious. Peach simple syrup has a variety of tasty uses. Not to mention, you can process it in a canner to use in winter for wistful reminiscences and anticipation of sweet, juicy, relaxing, warm summer days.
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It’s midsummer and therefore peach season! The Peach Truck travels our way a couple of times each summer, so we took advantage of the opportunity to preserve their deliciousness and do a short series on what to do with a box of peaches from The Peach Truck. The absolute easiest way to preserve peaches or any fruit for that matter is to freeze it. Let’s start freezing peaches!
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This iced tea tastes better than the international coffee chain version, plus making it at home makes it cheaper and better for you.
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Growing garlic is so easy, even I can do it! I bet you can, too!
There are two types of garlic, but many varieties.
Hardneck varieties have larger cloves, but fewer per head, develop a flower stalk also called a scape, can be easier to peel, produce better in colder climates, don’t store as long. This type will have cloves that develop around a hard stalk that runs up the middle of the head.
Softneck varieties have more but smaller cloves per head, don’t develop a scape, can store longer
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Just like it sounds, broth made from chicken bones. With just a couple of necessary ingredients, when bone broth is made in the crockpot, it couldn’t get much easier.
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Frittata is a fancy word for omelet or crustless quiche. Except it’s really easy and there’s no flipping and flopping and slopping. Adding broccoli, ham, and cheddar cheese to it makes it delicious!
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Yogurt requires only three ingredients: milk, a culture, and the right temperature. Making your own means you know what’s in it because you can choose the best ingredients and it doesn’t cost as much. Besides that, you have so many options for which kind of yogurt you want and how you want to use and flavor it!
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