CANNING PEACHES

                                               Fresh picked peaches from southern Illinois. 


Our friend brought us a bushel of wonderful peaches from Murphysboro.  There is nothing better than these juicy, drip down your chin peaches.  Just sitting on the counter, in the cardboard box, they smelled sweet and yummy.  It was very hard to resist eating them.  I could go on about the canning process but you can read about that in a good canning book.  These are wonderful warmed up and served over vanilla ice cream.  Oh Lucy!

We put up 9 quarts tonight from 1/2 a bushel.  Tomorrow night we will can the rest.  Then we store them on a dark basement shelf for the winter.  A few might even become Christmas gifts.