What do I do with all these PEACHES?!?

Question

Does anyone have any decent recipes for things you can make with fresh peaches? My husband and I recently purchased a new house, and the previous owners had two peach tress planted. My husband and I have been harvesting them, but we have like, a big tote and a half full of them and nothing to do with them. They're good, but not good enough to sell. We're just looking for simple things that we good make; I put some in pancakes this morning and they turned out pretty good =)

Please help me!

Thanks so much!

Answer 1

Well with you having that many peaches...You should learn how to can them since you will be having that many every year!

I am sure there is a peach jam recipe you could make!

Or you can find a way to freeze them in individual packets so you could just pull them out of the freezer and it would be just enough for you and your husband!

Peach Pie is thought also...make a couple extra and give them to family, friends or neighbors!

Good Luck ;o)

Answer 2

grill um with cinnamon

serve with vanilla ice-cream

(: yum yum  

Answer 3

Grilled Peaches With Berry Sauce



Recipe By     : Taste of Home

Serving Size  : 4    Preparation Time :0:00

Categories    : Dessert                          Fruit

                 Low Fat



   Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method

--------  ------------  --------------------------------

    5      Oz            Raspberries, Frozen -- Slightly Thawed

    1 1/2  Tsp           Lemon Juice

    2      Med           Fresh Peaches -- Peel, Halved

    5      Tsp           Brown Sugar

      1/4  Tsp           Ground Cinnamon

      1/2  Tsp           Vanilla Extract

    1      Tsp           Butter Or Margarine



In a blender or food processor, process raspberries and lemon juice until

pureed.  Strain and discard seeds.  Cover and chill.  Place the peach

halves, cut side up, on a large piece of heavy-duty foil (about 18 x 12").

Combine brown sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle into peach centers.  Sprinkle

with vanilla; dot with butter.  Fold foil over peaches and seal.  Grill over

medium-hot coals for 15 min or until heated through.  To serve, spoon the

raspberry sauce over peaches.



Yield: 4 servings

Answer 4

It's funny, I just had a peach recipe show up on a blog that I read! Try this Peach Yogurt combination:

http://cleverkaren.blogspot.com/2008/08/...

Peach ice cream is also fantastic, if you have an ice cream maker.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton...

If you like grilling, peaches are fantastic on the grill. Cut them in half, remove the pit, and grill face down for a few minutes until they're warm and they start to caramelize. Sprinkle a little brown sugar on top if you like.

When I think peaches, I always think of Peach Cobbler. Paula Deen has a simple recipe here:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula...

She also has a recipe for Peach Shortcake here:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula...

Answer 5

You could freeze or can them. Find instructions on line or look for a canning/freeze cookbook, you might find one at Walmart where the canning supplies are. If they aren't good enough to sell, but they are still good eating a local food bank or soup kitchen would be a good place to donate.

Answer 6

Peaches are awesome and easy to cook with.

You should par boil them (boil for a minute or 2) then remove the skin & pit.

You can freeze them and use them all year to make things like peach crisp, jam, pie, sauce for ice cream or waffles, or if you really want to try some thing different you can make a sauce for pork or bbq.

Just google peach recipes.  

Answer 7

Stewed Peaches----

1/4 cup sugar

4 whole cloves

1 1/2 pounds peaches, peeled and halved

About 20 minutes before serving: In medium saucepan over medium heat, heat sugar, 3/4 cup water and cloves to boiling. Add peaches; return to boiling. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 10 minutes or until tender. Makes 6 serving.

Grandma's Peach Shortcake

Servings: 6

2 c Sifted enriched flour

1 Beaten egg

2 tb Sugar

2/3 c Light cream

3 ts Baking powder

Soft butter or margarine

1/2 ts Salt

4 c Sugared sliced peaches

1/2 c Butter or margarine

1 c Heavy cream, whipped

Instructions:

The biscuits are almost rich as cake!

Sift together dry ingredients; cut in butter till mixture is like coarse

crumbs. Combine egg and cream; add all at once to dry ingredients, stirring

only to moisten. Turn dough out on floured surface; knead gently 1/2

minute. Pat or roll dough to 1/2 inch. Cut 6 biscuits with floured 2

1/2-inch round or fluted cutter. Bake on ungreased baking sheet in very hot

oven (450ø) about 10 minutes. Split shortcakes; butter bottom layers. Fill

and top with peaches and whipped cream. Serve warm.

FRESH PEACH COBBLER

Yield: 6 Servings

1/2 c Sugar

1 tb Cornstarch

1/4 ts Ground nutmeg

4 c Peeled fresh or canned

Peaches, drained

1 ts Lemon juice

1 c Flour

1 tb Sugar

1 1/2 ts Baking powder

1/2 ts Salt

3 tb Shortening

1/2 c Milk

1. Heat oven to 400F. Mix 1/2 cup sugar, cornstarch and nutmeg in a

2 qt. saucepan. Stir in peaches and lemon juice. Cook over medium

heat until mixture thickens and boils. Boil and stir 1 minute.

2. Pour into ungreased 2 quart casserole dish. Stir together the

flour, baking powder, 1 T sugar and salt. Add the shortening and cut

through with a fork until flour clings to shortening. Add milk. Form

into a ball. Drop mixture by 6-8 teaspoonsful onto hot fruit.

3. Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until topping is golden brown. Serve

with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

NOTE: You may substitute any fruit for the peaches, just being care-

ful that the amounts are approximately the same.  



FUZZY NAVEL

Yield: 2 Servings

1 md Peach; peeled

8 oz Low-Fat Peach Yogurt

4 oz Orange Juice

4 oz Ginger Ale

Combine the peaches, yogurt, and juice into a blender and blend until

smooth. Divide the ginger ale among serving glasses and add a portion

of yogurt to each. Watch it foam, and enjoy.

Per serving: 178 calories, 1 g fat, 6 g protein, 5 mg cholesterol, 37

g carbohydrates, 73 mg sodium.

Note: This is high in calcium, vitamin A and potassium. It is

especially good a few hours after a good run on a balmy summer day

Peach Smoothie

1 large ripe peach -- sliced

1 tablespoon sugar

1 cup nonfat vanilla ice cream

1/2 cup orange juice

1 pinch ground cinnamon

In a blender, combine the peach and sugar. Add the ice cream, orange juice, and cinnamon. Blend until smooth.

Ben & Jerry's Fresh Georgia Peach Ice Cream

2 Cup Ripe peaches finely chopped

1 1/4 Cup Sugar

1/2 Juice of lemon

2 Large Eggs

2 Cup Heavy or whipping cream

1 Cup Milk

The best way to capture the elusive flavor of summertime. Ben and Jerry

prefer small peaches because they have more flavor and less water than the

larger ones.

Combine the peaches, 1/2 cup of the sugar, and the lemon juice in a bowl.

Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours, stirring the mixture every 30 minutes.

Remove the peaches from the refrigerator and drain the juice into another

bowl. Return the peaches to the refrigerator. Whisk the eggs in a mixing

bowl until light and fluffy, 1−2 minutes. Whisk in the remaining 3/4 cup

sugar, a little at a time, then continue whisking until completely blended,

about 1 minute more. Pour in the cream and milk and whisk to blend. Add the

peach juice and blend. Transfer the mixture to an ice cream maker and freeze

following manufacturer's instructions. After the ice cream stiffens (about 2

minutes before if is done) add the peaches, then continue freezing until the

ice cream is ready. Makes 1 generous quart.

Answer 8

You could freeze some to use later for baking and for smoothies.  You may want to consider donating them to a homeless shelter.  Where I live we have citrus trees and there are organizations that come and pick your fruit for you and give it to the many homeless shelters in the area.  

Answer 9

You can peel, chop and freeze them.

Answer 10

The first recipe was given to me from a culinary student and is awesome the second is an old family recipe.  You could also make jam, muffins, slice over ice cream, grill them, put them in bread pudding, cut them onto your cereal...

PEACH CRUMB CAKE

2 C. flour

½ C. sugar

¾ C. butter

1/8 tsp. salt  

5 C. sliced fresh peaches

2 tsp. lemon juice

¾ C. sugar

¼ C. flour

¼ tsp. cinnamon

Grease a 9”spring form pan on bottom and 1”up sides.  Combine flour, sugar, salt and butter until crumbly.  Set aside 1 cup of crumbs.  Gently pack crumbs into spring form pan covering bottom and ½ way up sides.  In large bowl, combine peaches and lemon juice.  Add sugar, flour and cinnamon.  Toss lightly to mix.  Arrange over crumbs.  Bake at 425  for 20 minutes.  Remove from oven and sprinkle with reserved crumbs and bake 20-25 minutes longer.  When cool, sprinkle with confectioners sugar.

Crisp

375 degrees   9x9 pan

8 Peaches

6 Tbs. Butter

¾ cup Flour

¼ tsp. Salt

1 cup Light Brown Sugar

½ tsp. cinnamon

1/8 tsp nutmeg

Grated rind of one orange

1Tbs. lemon juice

3 Tbs. juice of one orange

Slice peaches and mix in orange rind. Sprinkle lemon juice over peaches and mix.  Put Peaches into 9x9 baking pan. Mix ½ cup sugar with cinnamon and nutmeg. Sprinkle over peaches. In a small bowl, mix flour, salt and sugar.  Cut in butter.  Sprinkle over peaches. Bake 20-25 minutes until the fruit is very soft.

Answer 11

Peach preserves, pies, muffins. Look on www.foodnetwork.com to find peach recipes. If that doesn't work, you could always send some to me, I love fresh peaches!! LOL!

Answer 12

salad

juice

frozen peach!

Answer 13

Can them. You'll have to buy canning jars and a canning pot, but believe me, if you have 2 peach trees it will be more than worth it; there are few things on this earth that taste better than homemade canned peaches. On top of that, canned peaches are the perfect things to give away to relatives!

This is how you do it:

Place the canning pot on the stove with the rack (a canning rack should come with the pot) and fill it half full with water.

Prepare the peach syrup that you will can them in. Cook 3 cups of sugar in 4 cups of water in a pot separate from the canning pot until the sugar is completely dissolved. This should make enough syrup for 4 pecks of peaches. Keep the syrup on the burner, but DO NOT BOIL OVER!

Meanwhile, peel the peaches and cut them in half, removing the pits. Place the halved peaches concave side down in wide-neck jars. Leave about a half-inch space at the top. Fill up the remaining part of the jar with the hot syrup. Run a rubber spatula around the sides of the jar to release the air bubbles, and put in more syrup if necessary.

Rub the rim of the jars to remove stickyness, and then place the lids on the jars (follow the instructions on the back of the box for the lids, if there are any) and tightly s***w on the tops. Place 6 of these jars in the canning rack, and add enough hot water to cover the jars by an inch or 2. Bring the pot to a boil for 30 minutes for quart jars, 20-25 for pints.

Remove the jars from the water, and cool for 24 hours in a cool, dry place.

It seems like a lot, but it's really very simple. And again, there is NOTHING in this world like homemade peaches.

Don't be thrown by the cost of the supplies, it actually isn't much, and like I said, if you have peach trees and you use the supplies every year, you're getting away with paying very little.

Answer 14

I don't have recipes off hand but you can make a peach salsa. Or even jams, preserves. Please send some to me!

Answer 15

With that many peaches, you guys will probably get burned out on them.

You can always peel them, give them a quick lemon juice bath and freeze them.

And later on use them for peach pie or cobbler. Can be used with other fruits for a fruit tart.

Peach margaritas.

If the peaches aren't good enough to sell, why not research on how to make your own potpourri from parts of the peaches, and then maybe sell that, or at least give it away as a gift?

Answer 16

You and your husband should spend an afternoon / evening peeling, pitting, and slicing the peaches.  Put about 2 cups of them in a baggie along with a bit of sugar.  Then simply freeze them.  The next time you want some peaches (in winter) just take a bag out and freeze them.

I like to puree a few and add to apple sauce.  That's good stuff!

I also cook a few in a pan with a fair amount of sugar, @ 1/3 cup water, and some cloves.  You can also add 1/2 to 1 tsp of vinegar.  Once they're cooked, they will last at least a week in the fridge.

They are great on pancakes or waffles, too.

Answer 17

I also just had alot of peaches-I made perserves and jelly of course but I also made a glaze out of peaches cooked down, honey, lemon, nutmeg,brown and white sugar. I grill chicken and pork with that on it. I also make turkey meatballs with fresh spinach with that glaze, italian dressing and soy sauce and eat over brown rice. I hope you enjoy these recipes as much as my family has. Tina