What to do with peaches

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My wife has a friend in Dallas that has been sending her peaches from something called the Peach Truck. So far we have received 36 peaches. We are kind of at a loss for what to do. We do not can peaches. We gave some to my BIL, we have peaches and ice cream, plus peaches and Splenda. We also have plans for peach cobbler soon.

What can we do with fresh peaches? Ideas?
 
My mother was given a recipe for peach cobbler that is cheap and fast, involving peaches and half a box of cake mix. She keeps saying that all she has to do is dump the can, or can sized serving of peaches after mixing with sweetener, into a small pan, then dump the cake mix on top, and then cook. I can ask the details if you want.
 
Freeze the fresh peach slices in freezer bag .
Frozen peaches are almost as good as fresh .
It is easy to do ... do a search on "Freezing Peach's" and pick a recipe ... Easy-Peasy !
We like to use the sugar-water method and freeze in freezer bags so they lie flat .
They can be used for cooking just like fresh !
Gary
 
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Peach Brandy, or add them to some jars of white lighting. There is also peach preserves. Or peaches & sour cream.
 
Peach Brandy, or add them to some jars of white lighting. There is also peach preserves. Or peaches & sour cream.
make some homestyle Peach Cognac ....

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Slice and dehydrate them. They'll last a long time in vacuum sealed bags or jars.
When you want to use some, soak them in water for a 1-2 hours to rehydrate, and they're darn near as good as fresh.
 
Worth doing if its that easy!

OK:

Take an 8"x8" cake pan.
Put 2 cups of sliced peaches in the pan.
Throw half a cup of sugar over the top of the peaches, evenly.
Throw half a box of dry yellow cake mix over the peaches.
Melt a stick of butter and and spread over the cake mix.
Bake in oven at 350 degrees for a half hour.

Works with one can of sliced, sweetened peaches instead of two cups fresh and 1/2 cup of sugar.

Works with cherries and blueberries, too.
 
Good lord man, rinse them off in the sink and start eating. At some point they’ll make a clean pass and you’ll know to slow up a bit. 5/day will get you there soon enough.

If you’re needing Splenda you need to allow them to ripen in a brown bag on the counter. When they come around it’ll go fast. Check twice a day the smell should alert you, and each one will have to be evaluated at first.

Danged but I love peaches.
 
Put them in a 50 gal plastic drum . let them ferment . Add suger too. etc
My uncle used to do that with the less than perfect apples from his small orchard. I’d help him flip it now and then. That hard cider tasted great and would sneak up on you if you weren’t careful. I believe he added a little yeast initially to get the process going.
 
You can either peal and slice them and blanch them and freeze or dry them out....
I grew up three months or more out of the year in peaches... I mean lots of peaches... three summers of high school years I loaded them in 18 wheeler trailers on average 18 hours a day... I think it was about 60 tons for me.
Edgefield County S.C. I was told once that we shipped more peaches than the entire state of Georgia.
 
My wife has a friend in Dallas that has been sending her peaches from something called the Peach Truck. So far we have received 36 peaches. We are kind of at a loss for what to do. We do not can peaches. We gave some to my BIL, we have peaches and ice cream, plus peaches and Splenda. We also have plans for peach cobbler soon.

What can we do with fresh peaches? Ideas?
Wine,pie
 
Oh my gosh, so many things to do with fresh fruit, particularly peaches.

My mother used to make what I call these days,,, real cobblers. She'd make & bake a thin crust & cook down fruits like peaches, apples or blackberries with sugar. She'd lay a piece of the crust on the bottom of a deep casserole dish & cover it with some cooked fruit, then repeat, creating 3 or 4 layers. Then pour what juice was left over the top. I liked it chilled. Peach might have been my fave with blackberries from my papaws briar patch a close second.
 
"Really love your peaches wanns shake your tree....". A number of years ago my wife worked a with a nice looking girl nick named Peaches. I taught her 6 year old boy this song, Steve Miller Band. She never forgave me! Can't figger out why she left...........
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I have about a 1/3 acre of peaches. All organic and ugly. Waiting for them all to die, they are too much trouble.
I don’t have that many but they are the most work of any fruit tree. Everything eats them and they get more tree diseases than any other fruit tree. This year there won’t be any here two late frosts got em
 
My wife has a friend in Dallas that has been sending her peaches from something called the Peach Truck. So far we have received 36 peaches. We are kind of at a loss for what to do. We do not can peaches. We gave some to my BIL, we have peaches and ice cream, plus peaches and Splenda. We also have plans for peach cobbler soon.

What can we do with fresh peaches? Ideas?
Here is a Southern recipe out of my family's recipe book. It's great! For fresh peaches, 2 cups sliced in place of canned.
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