I have fallen in love with canning and preserving. Weird, right? Seriously, who wants to stand in a hot kitchen when it's 105 outside and preserve food? Well...Me, that's who! We've canned well over 60 jars this summer, mostly of the garden veggies we've grown. LOTS of pickles. We may have over planted :). We've also made homemade Pasta sauce and canned it. Salsa too. David was working in South Alabama last weekend and brought back a 25# box of the most beautiful peaches I have ever seen!! So, of course, I had to preserve them!! But first we had fresh peach smoothies for breakfast. They were the best smoothies I have ever made.
I had purchased the BHG Canning publication @ Lowe's a few days earlier and several things caught my eye that I'd like to make later. Spiced Peaches and Peach Bellini Jam were just a few of them. We made both. The Peach Bellini Jam is delicious!! I think I like it better than my old favorite homemade plum jam. Oliver & I put it on everything, PB & J to breakfast toast. I look forward to trying the Peach Bellini Soda next!
3 cups finely chopped, peeled ripe peaches
1 cup Prosecco or other sparkling white wine
2 Tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 of a 6-ounce package (1 foil pouch) liquid fruit pectin
In a 6-to-8-quart stainless-steel, enamel, or nonstick heavy pot, combine sugar, peaches, Prosecco, and lemon juice. Bring to a full rolling boil, stirring constantly until sugar dissolves. Quickly stir in liquid pectin. Return to a full rolling boil, stirring constantly. Boil hard for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Quickly skim off foam with a metal spoon, avoiding peaches.
Ladle hot jam into hot, sterilized half-pint canning jars, leaving a 1/4-inch head space. Wipe jar rims; adjust lids.
Process filled jars in a boiling-water canner for 5 minutes (start timing when water returns to boiling). Remove jars from canner; cool on wire racks. To distribute fruit, cool for about 20 minutes, then gently turn and tilt jars without inverting them; repeat as needed. Makes 8 half-pints.
Per Tablespoon: 49 cal, 0 g fat, 0 mg chol, 0 mg sodium, 12 g carbo, 0 g fiber, 0 g protein
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