Sunday 1 September 2013

English Peach Jam

I'm still working at the same house I was last last year and I remember I commented on how nice the peaches were last August. This year there seems to be even more in their greenhouse, but many have bugs in and so many are just falling to the floor when they're ripe.
 I decided to go and gather these up at the end of work on Thursday so I could try to make some peach jam. I've only ever tried it once in Thailand on our honeymoon and I remember it tasting pretty good!
 I had about 3lb of fruit by the time I took the stones out, cut away the bad and skinned them. Many were so ripe that the skins just fell away from the fruit. To this I added the same amount of sugar, the juice of a a lemon and an apple to help with the petin.
I boiled it rapidly for 30 minutes until it reached setting point, which was quicker than I thought it would be as I'd no idea if it would set or not.
The jam went a lovely golden colour and tastes very peachy (who'd of thought). I doubt I'll have many opportunities to make an English jam out of this semi exotic fruit. I think I'm going to have to build a wall just to have a peach tree growing against it now!

10 comments:

  1. Oh yea, that peach jam is going to be good if it is like some I have had. Good save.

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    1. Yeah, I just have to decide wethere to tell the people I'm working for or not. They may think I spend my time picking peaches!

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  2. Send me some for next years open day?
    Swap you for something?

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    1. Drop me an Email John, kevalviti@hotmail.com, and I'll see what I can do!

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  3. That looks fabulous!!
    I made peach "ice cream' the other day..mmmm.
    Jane x

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    1. That sounds good. My sister used to make lots of icecream with an icecream maker. They all tasted amazing

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  4. You made peach jam while on your honeymoon? Bet your new bride thought that was just peachy!

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    1. I didn't make it on honeymoon just tried it. The hotel was rather posh and they had around 30 different types of homemade jams and marmalades for breakfast alone with every over type of breakfast item you could imagine. It was a good holiday!

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  5. Looks good, what a treat to find enough for jam. We have a couple of young apricot trees but have only had enough for jam once in 5 years.

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    1. I've just been on your blog and the apricots look good. I think I prefer them to peaches (peaches can be a little too furry for me sometimes) your have to tell me more about how you grow them.

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