Fun in the Kitchen Part 3

Where do I start? You'll be pleased to know our kitchen only scored a 2 on the mess scale. This is even after we realized we had too many peaches and therefore had to make a double batch.

We decided to show you all step by step how to make peach jam.

This is steps 1, 2 and 3. Step 1-Get lots of peaches. Step 2-Put peaches in boiling water for one minute. Step 3-Put peaches in cool water to prepare for step 4.

Step 4-Peel the peach. White peaches are WAY easier to peel than yellow peaches. The skin just fell off the fruit. It took us less than 30 seconds to peel each one.

These are the naked peaches.

Now unfortunately when I took pictures of Peter cutting up the peaches I didn't focus the camera very well and the pictures came out all blurry, so hence no picture of cutting the peaches, but that step comes next. Then once you have four cups of peach tidbits, you put them into a large pot and squish with a potato masher. Hence you get peach goo.

Believe it or not, this is how much sugar we had to add. 15 cups of sugar! So once we added the sugar, we had to bring it to a rolling boil. Our mixture was boiling and spitting hot goo. At one point we were worried about the size of our pot. Luckily for us the mixture didn't boil over the edge of the pot.

Of course while your peach goo is heating up, you should rinse out the jars you plan on putting the goo in.

After boiling goo for amount of time specified on pectin box ladle quickly into jars. Very carefully with hot mitts on or in hand twist on caps and turn upside down. We left them upside down for about twenty minutes or so and the lids seal themselves. The jar in the front was the left over goo, only made 1/3 of a jar.

Now we were wondering how white peach jam would differ from yellow peach jam...can you tell which one is the yellow peach jam? It's like a Where's Waldo book. There are a bunch of white peach jams and only one yellow peach jam on the counter. Can you find it?

And that our friends is how you make peach jam.