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     Title: Home Canned Spiced Peaches (My Grandmother's Recipe)
Categories: Fruits, Spices, Preserving
     Yield: 7 quarts

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    10 lb Peaches (abt 15 large)
    14    Cinnamon sticks
 3 1/2 ts Whole cloves
 3 1/2 ts Whole allspice

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    12 c  Granulated sugar
          +=OR=+
     6 c  Granulated sugar for light
          - syrup
    12 c  Water

 Prepare your water bath canner and clean jars. Start the
 canner coming to a boil. If it is ready before the fruit
 you can turn it off. It will come back to a boil very
 quickly when you are ready.

 Put spices into the jars. 1/2 teaspoon of whole
 allspice, 1/2 teaspoon of cloves, 2 whole cinnamon
 sticks per jar.

 Prepare desired sugar syrup by heating water and sugar
 in a sauce pan until sugar is dissolved. Set it aside.

 Blanch peaches by dipping in boiling water for 30-60
 seconds. Use a large slotted spoon and do 5 peaches at a
 time. Immediately remove peaches to a sink or bowl with
 ice water to stop the cooking.

 Slice each peach in half along the natural line of the
 peach. The skin will slip off easily after it is cut.
 Remove skin, pit, and any little fragments of pit left
 in the peach.

 Fill one jar at a time. Each peach half is supposed to
 be packed pit side down. As you fill a jar, cover the
 peaches with hot syrup leaving 1/2" head space.

 Load 7 quarts into a boiling water bath canner. Make
 sure the jars are covered by at least 2" of water.

 Bring the water back to a boil. Process for 30 minutes.

 Remove jars of peaches and place on a towel to cool.
 Allow them to come to room temperature. The lids will
 seal at this time. Any lids that do not seal need to be
 processed again or refrigerated and eaten within a week.
 Sealed jars can be labeled and stored on a shelf out of
 direct light for up to two years.

 Recipe by: Mrs. George W. Moore

 FROM: St. Martha's Guild, St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
       Carlinville, Illinois 62626

 From: http://www.carlinvillechristmasmarket.com

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