Every year I purchase ‘seconds’ of peaches {those flawed or very overripe peaches. I usually get them 50-75% off the regular farmers market price}. I use these to make “peach honey” (recipe to follow) but I detest wasting so much of the peach; the peel, the area around the pit, etc. Well, I found the answer: peach honey! Here’s the recipes for peach honey {Thanks Nana}
When I usually make peach honey I peel the peaches, and use the flesh to make the honey. But I recently found and adapted a recipe that uses the peelings, etc. to make peach juice which is then used to make the honey! The flesh of the peach is then canned as peach pieces or slices! Waste not!
Here is the adapted recipe for peach honey {trust me this stuff is like Nectar to the Coupon goddess!}
8 cups peach juice
- Make this juice by simmering the peach peels covered with about 6 cups water until they are super soft. Cool and strain in cheesecloth or jelly bag. This is your Juice. I use a new thin cotton t-shirt instead of cheesecloth.
4 cups Sugar or 3 cups bee honey
Place the juice in the saucepan and heat over medium to high heat. When it boils vigorously, add the sugar (1/2 as much sugar as there is juice) Boil down until it is thick like honey. (You can also cook it on low overnight in a crockpot).
Can with 1/4 in. head space and process for 10 minutes in water canner.
This way the peach “body” is used; to can peach slices and the peels are used to make honey. This is so good, we literally eat spoons of it!