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Country Peach Preserves
How to make peach preserves - just 3 ingredients: peaches, sugar, lemon juice! No pectin required in this peach jam recipe! Make your own peach preserves.
👥 5 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 24h 40m⏳ Prep: 40 min🔥 Cook: 24h👤 Natasha Kravchuk📖 natashaskitchen
🥘 Ingredients
Check off ingredients as you prepare them:
🍳 Cookware
- ●pot
- ●bowl
- ●stove
- ●oven
- ●measuring cup
📝 Preparation Steps
1
To blanch the peaches:
peaches (rinsed)11 lbs
2
Fill 2/3 of a large soup pot with water. Bring to a boil. Add peaches for ⏱️ 30 -45 seconds, then remove with slotted spoon and drain the pot. Remove peaches immediately to a large bowl of cold water.
peaches (rinsed)11 lbs
3
Peel the skin, cut the peaches into quarters and remove pits.
peaches (rinsed)11 lbs
4
Cooking the Preserves:
5
Place all peeled peaches in a large soup pot and squeeze in lemon juice. Drizzle well with 2 cups sugar, toss and drizzle again with the remaining 1.5-2 cups so the sugar reaches all the peaches. If peaches are very sweet, you may only need 3 1/2 cups of sugar total. Add more sugar to taste while its cooking.
peaches (rinsed)11 lbs
6
Let peaches sit at room temp with the sugar for about ⏱️ 30 min -⏱️ 1 hour, or until sugar is dissolved.
peaches (rinsed)11 lbs
7
Place the pot over the stove uncovered and bring to a light boil, stirring to prevent scorching. Once the whole pot is at a light boil, simmer for ⏱️ 10 minutes and turn off the heat. Let the pot stand uncovered until it is just warm to the touch or reaches room temp.
8
As soon as it cools, repeat step 3. You will bring it to a light boil a total of 5 times. Preserves have plenty of sugar so they won't spoil at room temp if you leave it on the counter overnight. If you want the preserves to have an even thicker consistency, you can boil it 6 times if you wish. (Note: the fifth time you boil, bring it to a boil over a little lower heat and stir a few extra times to prevent scorching. Also, it thickens more as it cools.)
9
The last time you bring it to a boil you will want to transfer it to sterilized jars while it's boiling hot.
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To sterilize the jars: wash them and let them dry in the oven at 215 for about ⏱️ 20 min or until completely dry. Boil the lids ⏱️ 5 min.
11
Transfer your boiling hot preserves to the jars using a glass measuring cup and a funnel (least messy method) leaving about 1/2″ space.
12
Screw the lids on enough to keep a tight seal in place but don't over-tighten them since air bubbles need to be able to escape.
13
Place packed cans into the canning pot and cover with 1-2 inches of water. Bring to a boil and process ⏱️ 15 minutes. Remove from the pot with jar lifter and leave at room temperature undisturbed for ⏱️ 12-24 hours. You may hear a pop when the jars fully seal. After ⏱️ 24 hours, check that the seal has formed by pushing down on the center of the lid - it should not move at all. If the seal does not form, refrigerate preserves and enjoy within 3 months.
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