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It's funny how every year it can be the same! You know it's coming, you prep and prep, give yourself a self calm talk. Mark it down in the planner, but still get stressed thinking about doing it all.

Hi I'm Kandis and welcome to Classy Classic's By Kandis!

Every year in our town we get a "case lot sale". I stock pile what I can for the winter, this is also where and when I get my peaches! ❤
When I do peaches, the smallest batch that I purchase is 80lbs!😮 Yes, the lowest is 80lbs!

Why so much, and what do I do with it all! Let's talk about stocking up on peaches! Well let's start at the beginning.
The cases are 20lbs each, so get them loaded into the house, I then sort them, softener and still hard.

These get sorted for time frames and what is being used for what. I do/ make with these: canned half peach jars, jam, peach leather, and of coarse some sliced for in the freezer for easy asses for mostly pies!

Oh I love stocking up on peaches, I stress out more then I should as I have been doing this now for years, and it's looks more intimidating then it is.

Let's start with canning! Take your desired peaches, wash them up. Then you blanch them! This means simply put them in boiling water for 1 minute then into cold water. This will allow the skins to "peel" off. So go ahead and peel them, cut in half and take the pitt out. Place the peach halves to the side. I use a medium syrup this is 3 cups of sugar to 4 cups of water. Heat this up not boiling, but to make the sugar dissolve and liquid hot. Sterilize your jars and seals. I use 1L jars when making mine. Fill your canned and place on stove and start to heat. This will take some time to get it boiling so I start it early. So with your jars clean I put them in the sink with hot water and the seals in a pot of boiling/ hot water, as the jars and seals need to be hot when packaging up! Take your hot jar, place the peach halves in the jar pitt side down and layer them, up to the top leave about 1/4 inch for room for the pressure. Add your hot syrup and wipe the rim, add seal and screw top. Place in canner! When canner is full of the jars add hot water to cover the jars. Bring canner to boil and let boil for required time. This is refured to as a water bath.
So that is how I do some of my peaches!
A good chunk of the  any ways.

Next jam! I made peach/ cherry jam this year.
The cherries on my tree did wonderful and so I needed to use them. For this I simply blanched, peeled, pitted and chopped the peaches, and pitted the cherries. Add the  to a BIG pot, with required amount of sugar. Depending on what kind of jam and your sweet tooth will depend. I don't use any added thickened, so I do a long boil. Then as your peaches, fill hot jar, place a hot seal and lid. Boil in the "water bath"..... the canner for required time for the jar size!

So now that there is canning and jam let's move on shall we.

My mom growing up always made Apple leather!
Home made roll up but with our crap apples after she made juice.
So now I make Apple leather but also peach leather! 😍

Take the peaches and cut the pitts out, these do not need to be blanched. With the pitted peaches, peel on put into a blender, I add honey, about a tablespoon per I dunno 3-4 cups. This just helps keep the color and make it more pliable. I use a dehydrator, put parchment paper on the racks and pour the peach sauce on. Leave on the dehydrator until peach sauce is dry and a leather!

One of the last things that I do with the peaches is slice the, for the freezer to make any peach goodies through the year. Simply cut in half remove the pitt, slice the halves. Put into large freezer zip lock bags label and put into the freezer!

There you have it, how this mamma went through 80lbs of peaches this year, to help stock up till next summer's case lot sale.

Do you do canning?
What do you can?
I will be sharing more stocking up tips thought out the month.

Getting the food prepped and stored for the winter months! Do you do anything with peaches, or large amount of friut.

Our Apple tree didn't produce this year as every some years it does however I will share what I am doing with what I get this year.
I hope you enjoyed this blog all about stocking up on some extremely yummy peaches.
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Till next week I hope you have a great food stocking week.
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Till next blog, have a fantastic week!