Peach Pickin'

We have some amazing aunts who have a modest little bunch of fruit trees.  This year they had a bountiful crop of peaches and plums and they shared them with us so kindly.

I took the boys and we took as much of the fruit as we could.  It was a lot of fruit!

I made two peach crumb pies, two peach cobblers, three plum cobblers, and thirty half-pints of jam.  I have a confession too, I had never canned.  I know, I am a farm girl.  I grew up around canning, snapping beans, mom and grandmothers putting by lots of food but, I have never had a garden that was any bigger than what we could eat.  Jam is really easy to make.  If you have a large saucepan, canning jars, and a soup pot with tongs your in business.  I only had to go out and buy the canning jars, Sure-Jell, and sugar.  Jam needs lots of sugar.
I am not going to give you my recipe for the jam because it is inside the Sure-Jell box.  If you are going to make jam you will need Sure-Jell.  In the directions you will receive instructions on making cooked jam, jelly, or freezer jam depending on what fruit you are canning.  I made cooked jam.  It really is easy even if you haven't done it before.  It will give you complete instructions listed by the different types of jam/jelly and fruit you will make.

Here is some of the jam.  The labels I found over at Ahrisha's Joyously Living Life.   She did a post on canning and this link will take you there.  But, she found the labels at papercrave.com.  This link will take you directly to the labels and this site includes an entire canning party set of printables-these are free downloads.  

I will link to:

Outdoor Wednesday at A Southern Daydreamer

Seasonal Sundays at The Tablescaper