PEACH SKIN JELLY

Making Peach Skin Jelly is a very olden cooking treat.   ♥

My mother, her mother and her mother all made jelly from the peeled skins of fresh, ripe and beautiful peaches.

Probably many people today still use the peelings of their peaches to make a delightful and delicious jelly.

 PEACHES are one of the prettiest fruits to me...well, behind STRAWBERRIES,♥ of course.

 The peaches are just beautiful this year.

Every one we've bought have been juicy and sweet.

 

When I peel my peaches for jelly....or a nice, sweet PIE, I always save the peelings.

These are the peelings from just a few peaches.

♥

My dad taught me years ago how to boil them for awhile, add sugar to taste and a little pectin and make

PEACH SKIN JELLY ♥

Sadly, I have misplaced his recipe..

but I found THIS one that is very very close, if not exact. 

There's so much flavor in the skins...it is a total shame to just toss them.

 After gently boiling for awhile, 

I use the colander my dad♥ bought for me about 30 yrs. ago..

mashing the skins for all the juice you can get..

 When the ripe peaches have been sliced..

 I sprinkle them with FRUIT FRESH.

This keeps the fruit from turning brown..

great on apples and fruit salads that use fresh fruits.

 So out of these few peaches,

I have a nice sized bag to freeze for...

a delicious pie, sometime during the winter when it will taste sooo good...
OR...I MIGHT make...

PEACHY WAFFLE..
doesn't that look amazing...
I could eat shoe leather if it had peaches and POWDERED SUGAR ♥
This amazing treat comes from WILL COOK FOR SMILES..love that name.

OR...
PEACH COBBLER FOR ONE.... OR TWO
(Mr. Sweet would have a running fit if I didn't make enuf for TWO...:))
That looks sooo good, LYNN and EARL over at
HAPPIER THAN A PIG IN MUD.
♥

 ... a couple of small jars of the BEST

PEACH SKIN JELLY   ♥

SO..

if you decide to make Peach Jelly or Preserves this summer,

think about saving the skins and making this old fashioned GOODNESS...

It really is good and you  will feel sooo domestic, doing what your grandmother

or great grandmother did, years and years ago. 

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I didn't have the blessing of knowing either of my grandmothers.♥

Both died before I was born.

To have a *grandmother relationship* is a HUGE blessing and I always

loved hearing stories about my grandmothers.

My mom's mother died when my mother was 8 yrs. old, so she didn't

have a lot of memories to share.

Her older sis, my AUNT LILLIAN, did have some stories to tell, tho.

She did tell me that my grandmother was an awesome cook.

She must have learned a lot in her short life...she was 33 yrs old when she died.

Tuberculosis claimed her life, as it did so many during that time period. 

and you MUST know that I have to make

HOMEMADE BISCUITS    ♥

(recipe under RECIPES on my blog tabs)

when we have this good jelly around.
LIFE IS GOOD !

I hope your day is full of blessings and happiness...and 

LOVE...!

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INSPIRATION FRIDAY

SWEET TOOTH FRIDAY

WOW...that's lots of partying going on..

Hope you will visit some of these fabulous places.

THANKS FOR COMING BY...   ♥