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Steps On How To Freeze Peaches

By Shawn Hunter


Most of the crops are seasonal and if someone loves them he or she will seek a way to preserve them and make them available in the next season. Peaches usually ripen during summer. They would be sweeter for use during the winter and this way there is need to get a means to have them obtained from the farm and preserve them in your home usage for future use. Freezing is one of the easiest means that is easy and yet cheap. The following is all you need to know on how to freeze peaches

Make a selection that is worthy keeping for a long period of time. Visit the orchard and make the selection you like. They are known to have varieties that come in different seasons. This also creates a difference in how they taste. Some are sweeter that the others, especially the ones called cling stone and they are growing in the season that occurs during mid June.

The skin on each of the fruit is slit by use of a knife that is very sharp. An X that is shallow is made. This is meant to give a room for expansion when blanching is done. To blanch, you will have to get water that is boiling inside a pot. Get a large bowl and should be filled with water that has been frozen. Lower the fruits into the water that is boiling for thirty seconds to one minute.

There is need to have the equipments for use as well as the ingredients ready with you. Make a list of what I required before you start following the procedure. For this instance, the first thing you require is the fruit to be canned. Have a jar funnel ready, a pot that is large enough to help handle what you have, ladles and spoons which are quite large. Have a food sealer that does not allow air inside or alternatively a Ziploc bags used for freezing. A fruit juice may be used instead of sugar.

This time now the fruits are ready for freezing. There are a number of methods that you can use. Water pack is one of them. A freezer container is packed with the pieces and half an inch is left for pints. Water is poured over the fruits while maintaining the head space that is specified.

Get off the tips and using a sharp dagger cut it into half. Gently twist each piece to trace the pit. Force it out using the knife. After that, you can slice them to obtain many pieces that you will pack in the container or even the vacuum bag that will be used to store them.

Next, get to know the number of peaches that are need and from where they will be obtained from. In case they are grown in the farm, you may pick and if that not the case the go to the nearest grocery and purchase. Five of them that are in good sizes can make a single quart. Beware of the markets with fake farmers who just happen to run warehouses for grocery stores.

Rims of the container in use need to be wiped. Then seal the bags in accordance to the directions from the manufacturer. Around the lid, use a tape to tighten and label the containers indicating what is inside, date and amount. They can be used for eight to ten months.




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