Comments on: millions of peaches, peaches for me

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:07:41 +0000

Floating is normal! A few things affect whether canned fruit will float to the top, including how tightly packed the fruit is and how much sugar is in the syrup. More tightly packed fruit will appear to float less because there’s more of it in there, but I think the sugar thing is key. Lower sugar syrups will have more floating, whereas people have said when they canned in heavy syrup they didn’t have floating at all.

My peaches always float. I think as they’re stored they settle a bit, but it’s a normal occurrence and not dangerous. I prefer a light to medium syrup so as a result there isn’t enough sugar to keep them from floating.

By: tanya

tanya — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:45:54 +0000

They came out great, but mine all floated to the top. I packed them tightly, but as they cooled, they floated. Any suggestions?

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:34:15 +0000

Hey Amber,

Sorry I didn’t mention it in the ingredients list. I did mention to use ascorbic acid in the instructions.

Slip halves of the peach from the stone, and drop into water treated with Fruit Fresh to keep them from browning.

Just use however much the product label states.

Sorry again for the oversight! Good luck canning!

By: Amber p

Amber p — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:08:35 +0000

I noticed you do not use An ascorbic acid in your recipe. Do you have a problem with them turning brown? Wondering since I have a bushel of peaches to can and no ascorbic acid in the house, so it requires me driving 45 minutes to town to get some.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:37:09 +0000

Not at all! I’m so glad the peaches worked out for you, aren’t canned peaches amazing? Thanks for the kind words!

By: Alicia

Alicia — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:00:57 +0000

I used this recipe to can peaches for the first time the other day…you are amazing! Thank you! So easy to follow and they turned out so pretty! I linked this page to my blog, I hope you don’t mind! (http://achopbchop.blogspot.com/) Thank you again for the great post!!

By: millie

millie — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:34:56 +0000

thank you!! it looks like something I could try!!

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By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:15:25 +0000

Oh, neat. I bet peach jam is awesome. I’m wedded to strawberry jam and it won’t let me cheat, though. I hope you do can some peaches. If you like them out of season, that is, because they really are so much better than anything you could find in the store.

By: gaga

gaga — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:08:32 +0000

I usually turn mine into jam and have never canned them like this before. I’ll probably try it next year. Thanks!