Cookerati

My husband looked at the basket of peaches I bought over the weekend, but didn’t have time to work with yet.  He pulled out one and said – these are going bad, we should do something with them now.  He proceeded to put all the ones he thought were bad into the compost bucket, then went to the basement to work on his mother’s computer.  I guess that was his part of the we should do something. I thought about ignoring them in retaliation, but I couldn’t. I’m over ambitious sometimes and buy more than I should because I have great and wonderful plans.  That’s all well and good until the peaches start to rot, ugh.  So, I took the quick way to saving my peaches.

• First you rinse the peaches off. 
• Then start a vat of boiling water. 
• Put the peaches into the vat. 
• If you have a nice metal strainer, or colander put the peaches into that first, because it makes it easier to pull out of the hot water. 
• Meanwhile fill a couple of bowls with cold water and ice.
• Drain the water off the peaches, or use a slotted spoon to remove the peaches from the water and put them into the ice water for a couple of minutes. 
• SLIDE the skins off, slice and de-pit. It really slides off so easily.
• Place peach slices into a bowl. 
• Sprinkle with some sort of ascorbic acid, or in our case we used True Lemon and gently stir.
• Sprinkle with sugar and gently stir, let it sit to dissolve. 
• Place in freezer bags, but remove as much air as possible (I have one of those freezer bag – air remover thingys). 
• Then place flat in the freezer.