Its that time of year.... canning season and I am ready for it. We had planted three peach trees when we moved in and two have died. I need to take them back to the nursery and see if they will replace them. Its weird they died. Anyways so we don't have peaches yet hopefully next year. Our one surviving tree is pretty small still. I am hopeful. We did get some apricots this year and I canned a few and ate a bunch.
I participate in a vegetable/fruit coop every other week and they had peaches for a really good price so I took advantage of that and got some and ate a ton fresh. Nothing is better than a fresh juicy peach. I did can some and I looked up some ways to can them without using sugar. I thought they are so sweet as they are why add sugar unless you have to to make sure its preserved right.
I found a blog that they used lemon juice and that was it. So I tried it. You could either use a tsp in each quart jar and then top off with water or use 1/2 cup per gallon of water. So I did the gallon of water one.
I had lemons so I juiced them in my handy dandy hand juicer.
Then I put some water in a pan and added the 1/2 cup lemon juice and kept it on warm while I cut up the peaches and then filled up the jars with the warm lemon water.
I haven't tried any of them yet but they look delicious and healthy. I love finding ways to cut down on the sugar and be a little healthier. I found another way with honey but my mom said her mom did that and they weren't as good they just had a funny taste to them. So we will find out soon enough how the lemon water did.
