We hit a small local fruit and veggie stand early Saturday morning and left with a bevvy of local and not-so-local (Washington state) produce to put for our winter pantry.
We put up peaches, regular old peaches in a light honey syrup and we brandied some too. The brandied ones (above) are peeled peaches with a honey syrup and brandy poured over top with a few cloves and allspice berries for spice too.
Thankfully the Montana Hutterite colonies are better farmers than I am, because they have cucumbers something that was a complete failure for me. We bought enough to make seven pints of bread and butter pickles. I’ll probably buy another bag of cucumbers from them for dills too.
We dried a box of apricots in the dehydrator too. We like to munch on these and they make for a great little snack in our packed lunches.
So, how about you? What are you putting up for winter these days?
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I just froze Soy Beans for Edamame, Broccoli and Cauliflower over the weekend.
I’ve put the first tiny batch of roast tomatoes in the freezer, and some corn..but Sunday, when I planned to go pick peaches and blueberries, it was POURING. Since it’s the first significant rain since June, and since it gave me a good excuse to spend my Jeff’s (as opposed to your Jeff’s) birthday snuggling with him instead of picking fruit and canning, , whic pleased him, I can’t complain, but no putting-by was accomplished.
I’m reminded that I need to place my order for peaches (a local place gets them from GA and they’re a great price). I was going to just get one half-bushel box, but my kiddo has already eaten all the dried peaches I made in June and July, so I’m thinking I might need to get a whole bushel and get the dehydrator cranking (she *loves* to snack on dried fruit, which is awesome). We’ve got some in the freezer, but maybe could stand to freeze a few more. And we’ve attempted some homemade pickles–just a jar of fridge pickles, and if we like how that seasoning blend turned out, we’ll get a bunch more cukes from our favorite farmer and can some up.
I made Chow-Chow, stuffed serrano chilis, pickled green tomatoes, pickled green beans, and I’m really looking forward to making something like your brandied peaches.
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