Tips for cooking canned peaches
In winter, enjoy summer simply. It is only necessary to make preparations from the summer gifts of nature and continue to use vitamins throughout the year. One of the most popular fruits for canning is peach.This popularity is due to his appetizing mind and moderately sweet and juicy flesh.
Special features
It is possible not to part with the peach flavor all seasonally, preserving the fruits for the future in the form of compotes, jams, candied fruits and frozen cloves. They will be a great addition to cheesecakes and pancakes at breakfast. They will be filled with homemade pies and quench their thirst better than store juices.
Preservation of summer fruits is a profitable process from all sides.
- Saves money. In the autumn-winter period, the cost of fresh fruit increases significantly. Indulge yourself with vitamins is becoming increasingly expensive. Ready-made canned peaches are also more expensive than those made at home from the summer harvest.
- There is an opportunity to stock up on a quality product. In summer, the most juicy peaches, grown without harmful chemical additives, are fragrant and healthy. They make very tasty canned treats.
- You can embody exclusive recipes seaming for the winter. On the Internet, culinary masters and experienced housewives generously offer peach canning options at home. Most of them can not be bought in the food departments. They can only be made independently.
- A selection of fruits to your taste. For conservation, choose a variety of peaches in accordance with their taste, it is possible to personally select the fruit, suitable for the density and degree of maturity. What peaches were used in the purchase of preservation is impossible to predict. Just like that, will the contents in such jars be fragrant and sweet enough?
In order not to be disappointed in the results of winter canning, carefully select fruits for harvesting. Peaches need dense, without visible damage to the skin and dents on the fruit. It is preferable to even make a choice in favor of immature fruits. They retain their shape well after pouring boiling water, after boiling with sugar during the preparation of jams and confiture.
In winter, canned peaches will show themselves not only as an excellent independent delicacy, but also complement with their fresh taste and aroma many homemade desserts. The sunny fruits made for the future are wonderfully combined with dough and cream. Pies with this fruit will remind in the winter about summer from the first piece.
Peach preparation
Before you prepare any of the preservation for the winter, you need to choose the appropriate ripeness fruit. Peaches need to take a good quality, because even a slightly spoiled product will be able to further cancel all the efforts expended in the process. The spoiled fruit will lead to fermentation and spoilage of the party of compotes and jams. We'll have to send the contents of the cans in the trash can and only regret the time spent on cooking failed seam. The money that is given for the fruit - no one will return it back.
It is better to immediately take only good fruits and do everything according to the instructions. Step-by-step recipes will help to carry out the work correctly.
Fruits need to prepare. Wash the peaches with running water. Carefully clean the skin from the velvety coating on it.
The easiest way to clean the peaches from the gun is to collect cold water in a basin and dissolve soda in it with a calculation of 1 tsp. on 1 l of water. Peaches leave to lie in this solution for about half an hour, and then remove and wash with clean water. Fruit fluff will disappear without a trace.
If it is necessary to completely remove the skin from them, this is done by scalding the fruit with boiling water. After the fruit is placed in highly cooled water. Then they are easily cleaned from the skin by hand.
Before scalding and chilling the peach, it is advisable to make a shallow cross-shaped incision on the top of the fruit. Use a sharp knife! You will do it quickly.
After all the efforts made, the fruits can be put into circulation. Delicious jams, marmalade, pastila, jam, sauces and compotes - this is the minimum of what turns out to be tasty cooked from peaches.
Ways of canning
The easiest recipe for spin for the winter - a compote of peaches. Even the most inexperienced hostess can handle it.So, it is not necessary to sterilize the jars, to perform complex manipulations with fruits, too.
Peach compote without sterilization
You will need clean three-liter jars and lids for them, fresh peaches, granulated sugar, some citric acid and water. On the penultimate ingredient is to focus, as many experienced housewives will not understand what it is listed in the recipe. Not everyone can roll up cans with compote from their debut times so that the lids do not swell. Sometimes novice hostesses complain that the lid just rips off the cans, with such a sound that the heart stops in the chest. To prevent such situations, citric acid will be added to the compote recipe.
List of ingredients for 3-liter container:
- 800-900 g peaches (about 9 small fruits);
- 200 grams of sugar (cup);
- 1⁄2 tsp citric acid (fresh lemon);
- 2, 4 liters of water.
You can divide the number of products into three banks, for example, if there are two containers of a liter volume and one for 850 ml.
While peaches are soaked in water, you need to prepare a container for seaming compote. The same baking soda and hot water will come to the rescue. Do not wash the jars with dish detergent. Remains of funds on the walls of the cans can ruin rolled products.
Soda carefully wash the banks from the inside, placed under hot running water, rinsed. Then each tank is scalded with boiling water. Tara is ready for safe storage of compote.
Compote with peaches can be made from whole fruits or from halves. In this recipe, it is recommended to take the halves of the fruit. This version of the drink will have a richer fruit flavor and peach aroma. Work is carried out in stages.
- Cut the fruit, remove the bones.
- Put half a peach into jars.
- Sugar is poured on top (for a three-liter jar consumption 1 cup).
- Add on top of 1⁄2 tsp. citric acid powder or juice of two lemon slices.
At this time on the stove boiling water to boil. The last step is to fill the cans with boiling water and screw the lids on. Turn upside down and cover with a warm blanket. After a day, return the banks to their normal position and put them in storage until the turn comes to try compote.
After opening the cans, when you want compote, you can use canned peach halves of it for baking. Delicious homemade peach pie will be very useful to compote, tea for dessert.
Compotes can be prepared without the addition of citric acid. Red currants, cherries, grapes or any other fruits and berries that contain enough of their natural acid will be an excellent addition to sweet peaches.
Sauce "Mostard"
Cooking Italian sauce at home can not only a professional chef, but anyone who uses this recipe. The sauce is wonderfully combined with cheeses and turns out very tasty and unusual.
List of ingredients:
- 500 g peaches;
- 90 g sugar;
- 500 g dry white wine;
- 1 tsp. mustard varieties "Dijon";
- 1 tsp. crushed ginger (powder).
Cooking:
- Remove peels from peaches and then remove from the middle of the stone.
- Finely chop the fruit.
- Sprinkle with sugar, mix.
- Put on the fire in a suitable container.
- Pour the wine and cook for half an hour.
- Add mustard and grated ginger.
- Boil another 15 minutes.
Serve chilled. You can decorate the product with greens, a slice of fresh peach. Spices should be added, focusing on your taste - less or more.
To preserve the sauce for the winter, you need to double the amount of sugar and decompose the hot ready-made sauce on previously sterilized jars. Close the lids and save until winter. 500 g of sauce is obtained from the specified amount. It is better to pick up 2 cans of 200 grams for it, and use the remainder at dinner.
Peaches for the winter with honey
Unusual recipe, where instead of the usual sugar used another ingredient - honey. The specified number of products will be enough for 10 cans with a volume of 1 liter.In this variant of preservation for the winter period also sterilization of containers is not necessary This is a big plus, because the canning process usually takes place in the fruit season, when it is very hot outside and at home.
Hot extra vapors - an extra additive in a room with a high temperature. The process of rolling up and without sweltering heat is not easy. It is better to stock up on the fact that it is easier and faster to preserve and choose recipes without too much steam and heat in the kitchen.
List of ingredients for 10 cans (one liter each):
- 4 kg of peach;
- 1 lemon;
- 200 g of honey;
- 2 liters of water.
Cooking
- Wash and dry the fruit from moisture.
- If you want to use the halves of the fruits of peaches, get rid of the bones inside.
- Put the peaches in a clean liter glass jars.
- Pour boiling water and leave to infuse until the liquid becomes warm.
- Drain back into the pan, which has become fragrant water.
- Heat the liquid, add honey to it.
- Wait for the boil and pour the honey water back into the container.
- In each jar add 1 teaspoon of lemon juice.
- Spin the jars and turn upside down.
- Top cover them with a warm blanket until the contents are completely cool.
You can please yourself and your family with such homemade fruit in winter and spring. Honey aroma gives canned peach special summer flavor.
Peaches in their own juice
This recipe implies sterilization, but the effort expended on this process compensates for the delicate and rich flavor of the peach roll.
List of ingredients:
- 5-6 large peaches;
- 4 tbsp. l water;
- 1 tbsp. spoon of sugar.
This number of products is designed for one liter jar. The final calculation is done by each hostess individually, depending on how many cans you need to roll up for the future.
Cooking
- Wash the fruits and peel off the skin in any convenient way.
- Divide the fruit into two equal slices.
- Tightly fill the jar, sandwiching the peaches with sugar.
- Add water and put in a pan for sterilization.
- Sterilize 25 minutes.
- Take out on the table, cork. Turn on the cover. Cover with something warm to cool.
- Turn to the bottom and put into storage.
Option seaming peaches in its own juice without adding water
The list of ingredients for 3 cans of 1.5 liters:
- 4 kg fresh peaches;
- 1.5 kg of granulated sugar.
Cooking
- The peaches without a core are cut into slices and spread in cans in layers with sugar.
- Install the jars in the pan, where pre-poured water. The water level should reach half the height of the cans.
- Turn on the fire under the pan and begin sterilization. The process will take about 40 minutes. During this time, juice will stand out from the fruit and fill all the free space in the glass container.
- The hot container is carefully removed on a table covered with a towel, immediately rolled up with covers.
- Further, the provisions must cool down for a day in a turned upside down form. During this time, banks should be stored under a warm blanket.
- The cooled seams are cleaned before winter in the place reserved for them.
Peaches in their own juice without added sugar
This recipe of preservation is suitable for diabetics and anyone who limits himself in the consumption of sugar, but is not afraid of sterilization.
In addition to glass jars, only peaches or nectarines and water will be needed.
Cooking
- Sort out fresh peaches, excluding sprinkled fruit in the jars.
- Wash fruit with water.
- Remove bones from fruit.
- To the brim fill the banks with fruit halves.
- Boil water and boiling pour it into jars of fruit. Sterilize for 20 minutes until juice appears.
- Sterilized containers are rolled, turned upside down and wrapped.
Preservation is obtained naturally sweet and without additional sweetening. This delicacy can be given to children and anyone who is harmful sugar in its pure form and in any dishes.
Peach Marmalade
This natural dish can not only be happy to eat in the winter and spring, but also treat them to children.The product is markedly different for the better from the traditional marmalade from the store.
List of ingredients:
- 2.5 kg peaches;
- 1.6 kg of sugar;
- 2 cups (mugs) of white wine.
Cooking
- Peaches are dried completely after thoroughly washing the skin.
- Divide into halves.
- Remove the bones.
- Cut arbitrarily.
- Place in a blender.
- Crush the fruit.
- Put in a saucepan.
- Add a portion of sugar to it, pour in the wine, boil the contents for a few minutes on high heat.
- Cool.
- Filter through gauze or sieve.
- Again put on fire, this time the minimum.
- Stir, boil until thickened.
- Poured into clean half-liter jars, sterilized for 30 minutes.
- Cover with lids, clean before cooling under a blanket.
- Send stored in the cellar or in any cool place.
Formed marmalade with gelatin
In this recipe, the ingredients are based on the preparation of a test portion for one or two sweets. Have to take:
- 4 peaches;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 15 g of gelatin.
Cooking
- Prepare peach puree in the manner described above.
- Add sugar, mix and leave for two hours to dissolve the sweet grains.
- Bring the peach mass to a boil and cook for 10 minutes over low heat.
- Extinguish the fire and introduce gelatin, previously dissolved in water.
- Mix. Wait 5 minutes. Pour into molds and put away in the cold.
Five Minute Jam
Ingredients Ingredients:
- 1 kg of peaches;
- 700 g of sugar;
- 1 tsp. lemon juice;
- a cup of water.
Cooking
- Washed and prepared halves of fruit cut into small cubes.
- Cover the harvest with sugar and set aside for 2 hours until the peaches make juice.
- If the juice is not enough, you can add a cup of water. With enough juice, you should do without water.
- Place the saucepan with the peach-sugar mixture on medium heat and wait until it boils. Stir the mixture constantly, so as not to burn.
- How to boil, reduce the flame and cook for another five minutes.
- Add lemon juice, stir the last jam and remove from heat.
- Arrange in sterile jars, close the lids, wrap a blanket and leave upside down to cool.
Peaches are preserved not only as independent products, but also in combination with other fruits. This applies to compotes and jams. Marmalade also turns out to be tastier and more beautiful in appearance, if you make it from a mixture of fruit or berries. These are only sweet options for cooking for the winter of peaches. There is an opportunity to try to make in store liqueurs, frozen fruit pieces, candied fruits, sauces, liqueurs and peach marshmallow. Summer treats will certainly delight your taste in the cold season. Vitamins should be present in the diet all year round. Now it is available to any hostess!
See the recipe for canned peaches for the winter in the next video.