What to do with 50 Pounds of Peaches... jam anyone?

I Know it seems like a lot, but its worth it to have sweet canned peaches, and peach jam all year long!
Our friend Rick picked us up two 25 pound baskets of peaches from Jungle Jims . (if you haven't been there.. you should go, its awesome!) Each basket was $17.50 which ends up being around 70 cents a pound. Not too shabby at all!

What we did with most of them was canned them sliced in a light sugar syrup, but that's another post. The rest of them we made into yummy peach jam, about 3 batches worth.

The peach jam is pretty much the same as any other jam. Just sugar, fruit, and pectin. The recipe we used called for 4 cups of fruit, 5 1/2 cups of sugar, and one box of pectin. The recipe also called for lemon juice, but we left that out. So first peel, and pit the peaches, then dice them up into small chunks. Put the fruit and the pectin in the stock pot, bring it to a rolling boil. Then pour in the sugar. Bring it back to a rolling boil, and boil for one minute. After that it is ready to put in your jars. It gets processed in the Water bath canner for 10 minutes. We made a quick video showing the steps in more detail below.


We only shot a video for the peach jam this time, next time we can peaches we will put up a video of that too:) Hope you enjoy!

10 Dozen?

Yep that's right, we bought 10 dozen ears of corn from the town farmers market this week. And we plan on buying at least 10 more the next time he has it. We usually get enough corn to last us until the next year, when we can buy more.

The type of corn we get every year is called Serendipity, it is a bi color sweet corn. And it is so sweet, that it tastes like sugar has been added to it. It's fantastic, I love it!

What we do to store our corn for the year is freeze it, One year we tried canning it, but it doesnt have quite the same texture that we like, so in the freezer it goes. First thing we do is shuck it all( I know... Thats a given). We use laundry baskets to hold it all in, because its the easiest thing to carry them in, and all the husks to the garden.

After that, we take them all to the kitchen, rinse them off, and start cutting the corn off the cob. We also like the pulp stuff left on the cob after cutting the kernals off, so we scrape that stuff into the bowl too. Then 3 cups of corn go into each quart baggie, and we throw them in the freezer, thats it!

Seems like alot less than there should be doesnt it?

And then of course we have to tie up the cobs in multiple trash bags, and boxes or else HE will eat them all! He looks so innocent right? Not :)