Millions of Peaches, Peaches for Me!

I ordered 50 lbs. of peaches this year. Why, you may ask? I usually order just one box, but I had two different sources that I wanted to compare. Hands-down winner was the box from Boy Scout Troop 1860. They sell fruit (peaches, pears, nectarines & apples) for their fundraiser every year. This year the profits were split with the Young Women in their ward; even more reason to love their peaches! The peaches were large, juicy, red, free-stone beauties. The other box were small, yellow, also free-stone, but not so juicy or pretty.

Anyway, with two boxes of ripe peaches on my hands, I invited my friend Mariann to bring over her box so we could can them together. It took seven hours, but we got through all three boxes and ended up with almost 36 quarts!

I should have taken a picture of the "before" peaches so you could see the difference. It took three "boy scout" peaches to fill a quart, and six of the other, so that gives you an idea of the size difference at least. Mariann took a few pictures of us with the peaches, but she hasn't sent them to me yet, so I couldn't include them in this post. Maybe I'll add them later.

I also have a box of pears waiting to be canned; hopefully they'll last until I get back from our trip to Denver this weekend.