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Prep Time: 45 Minutes Cook Time: 5 Minutes |
Ready In: 50 Minutes Servings: 24 |
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Use slightly underripe firm fruit for the most pronounced peach flavor. Ingredients:
2 lbs slightly underripe peaches |
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice |
1 (2 ounce) box dry pectin |
3 -4 cups sugar, to taste |
Directions:
1. Peel the peaches by dipping them into a pan of boiling water to loosen the skin; then immediately cool them by holding under cold water.
2. The skins will slip off; remove the pits.
3. In a large bowl, coarsely crush the peaches by hand or with a potato masher or pulse a few times in a food processor; you'll have about 5 cups of pulp.
4. Combine the peaches and lemon juice in a slow cooker; sprinkle with the pectin.
5. Let stand 20-30 minutes.
6. Stir in the sugar; cover and cook on LOW for 2 1/2 hours, stirring twice.
7. Remove the lid, turn the cooker to HIGH, and cook 2-3 hours longer, until the jam reaches the desired consistency.
8. Ladle the warm jam into clean spring-top glass jars (or use screw tops with new lids); let stand to cool.
9. Store, covered in the refrigerator for up to 2 months.
10. OR spoon into small plastic storage containers and freeze up to 3 months.
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