Homemade Peach Jam



 

Its peach season!!!! My awesome aunt brought over some peaches from Palisade, CO last week and I decided to try to make some homemade peach jam for the first time. It wasn’t that hard at all and is really delicious!

The first step was preparation, I washed the canning jars, then covered the lids with boiling water from the kettle, and filled the canning pot with water and put on the stove top to boil.

I then washed and peeled the peaches and separated into small pieces (the directions said to cut the peaches, but they were so ripe I didn't even need to cut them). I placed the peaches a pot to heat and soften, occasionally crushing them. Once the peaches were a soft pulp, I removed them and measured them and then placed back in the pot. I added 1 cup of sugar for every 1 cup of peach pulp and heated on the stove until it thickened.

I then poured the jam into my canning jars, cleaned off the rim with a wet rag, placed the lids on and put in the boiling water. I kept the jars boiling according to the canning directions and for my altitude (35 minutes). At less than 1,000 feet ,if you are using pint size jars it takes 20 minutes, and quart size jars takes 25 minutes, but I suggest looking up the canning time table and checking for your altitude as well.

I removed the jars from the water using a jar lifter and placed the jars on a rag so that they were not touching each other. After letting the jars cool for over 3 hours, I checked the seal, if the middle of the lid does not pop up, your good to go!

I couldn't resist and had to open a jar to try the peach jam right away and it was sweet and delicious! Hopefully I will have some left over to give as gifts!