Beginner's Guide to Canning Peaches Without Refined Sugar ~ Large Homesteading Family 

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Can you can peaches with the seed?

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Yay! It’s such a fun and easy project and having canned peaches in winter is such a treat. Enjoy!

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Awesome! It’s really not horrible to slice most varieties from the pit.

It does add some cost if you have to purchase it, but I haven't found it to be significant enough of an expense to worry about. Our ultimate goal is to process our own grape juice and not have to purchase it all.

Did you try it? I'd love to know how it turned out. My partner likes things kind of sweet...Also grape juice is expensive for those of us without grapes.

You can definitely do that!

I did and they are awesome!!! Straight peach flavor!!!!

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Sorry I’m just now responding! I actually don’t shop in stores except for a few basics that we are not currently producing ourselves (milk mostly). I buy almost everything we don’t produce from Azure. Some things come from other online sources.

I should also mention that we don’t live in a place with many stores. 😉

1 year without loss of appearance/texture. After that it starts to deteriorate, but still safe to eat. Light won’t do anything other than affect that color/appearance faster.

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I’m so glad it was helpful! I’m sorry, we don’t have lotus fruit here though.

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Sugar is added both to increase sweetness and preserve color when canning fruit. The grape juice is naturally high in sugar and accomplishes both. You could also just do water, but you would definitely notice a difference in taste and color. Jams and jellies only require sugar in order to gel with most types of pectin. I use Pomona’s pectin which does not require any sugar. However, I still use natural sweeteners for taste.

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Oh, I’ll get that fixed! No, I wouldn’t recommend an IP. You could use any large pot that is stove top safe though. You just need something for your jars to sit on off the bottom. A layer of jar rings works in a pinch! Also it should be tall enough so that the water can boil a few inches above the tops of the jars.

Sometimes yes, but I buy some too. I just make sure it is organic and doesn’t include other ingredients.

@@TheFromScratchFarmhouse very hard to find citric acid is a chemical made from mold it's in everything so called organic you can steam the fruit in a double boiler method no sugars no waste

This recipe was so easy and the grape juice such a wonderful idea. You can eat the peaches 🍑 and drink the juice. I made 12 quarts today!! Thanks!! This recipe is a keeper for sure!

So good to hear Tracy! Glad you loved the recipe.

Hi Sandra, welcome here! Yes, you can use the white grape juice in place of syrup when water bath canning any fruit. Just make sure you follow the canning directions for that particular fruit, such as how long it should be processed. Also, you can use other types of juice if that works better flavor-wise with that fruit. Happy canning!

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Nope, they might brown a bit where they are sticking out of the liquid, but that won't hurt them any. This is very normal.

Oh sorry, how did it go? It’s just water! And the yes, that the fruit fresh just to keep them from browning.

Yes.

Yes, I do!

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I'm sorry that I'm just now seeing this! I'm sure you already decided if they were safe to eat, but I'll mention it here anyway. As long as it was processed long enough to kill off any bacteria inside, and the lid is sealed, it is safe. Even if you didn't process it long enough, it could not contain botulism, which is what most people worry about, because peaches are a high acid food. Hope this helps!

Would love to get an answer. Also white grape juice has 37-40 gm of sugar in 6 oz of juice, so this is certainly not a "low sugar" alternative

Lemon juice is fine. We aren't concerned with natural sugars.

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Exactly what I was hoping for here. In the ball book they mention using water… I would really like to find someone who cans peaches in water/their own juice.

You definitely can, but keep in mind that it’s less about sweetening the peaches and more about keeping the sugar and peach taste in the peaches. Water is definitely fine, but will dilute the taste.

I just used your video and was very informative and easy to follow! My first time canning peaches!! I’m hoping they all seal well! I use taddler lids and regular ball lids. I was a little overwhelmed with how many peaches I had to peel/cut and core but I did 9 quarts and 1 pint. I felt like a savage trying to get those peaches apart! they were like brand new and hard! I even broke a knife. Maybe I didn’t understand on how to exactly cut them in half and still get the core out easily. Do you scrape the red pieces of core out of the middle? If I didn’t, is it easier to get it off when you take it out of the can?

It tastes amazing too!

Yes! And these taste amazing too. 👏