one and a half buckets of peaches,
a lot of sugar, some pectin and lemons later...

12 - 12oz peach jam
10 - 16oz lemon peach sauce
6 - 16oz regular peach jam
2 - 16oz low sugar peach jam
2 - 16oz peach, crushed red pepper and thai green chili
(not too hot, but will be interesting
to see how it changes taste as it ages)

the lemon peach sauce was going to be
peach butter, but then i remembered how
much i liked the smell of the peach butter
yesterday before it cooked down with all
the lemon in it and decided to put some of
that up instead of as peach butter. i
think it will be good over ice cream or as
a base for a pie or pastry filling or even
on biscuits. we'll see.

the crushed red pepper and thai green chili
version was just to give some a little zing,
but it would not be for Ma to eat as she
doesn't like any heat at all. just a bit of
a treat for me.

i didn't put any spices in the rest of
the jam today other than the lemon or peaches.
the house smelled wonderful all day.

most of the smaller 12oz jars will be
given away and the low sugar jars will go
to my dad and step-mom. a jar from each
of the bigger batches will go to the person
who had the tree.

now i wonder how long i should wait before
opening one and giving it a try? hmmm...

and a good night for sleeping,

peace in plinkitude,


songbird