Showing posts with label canning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label canning. Show all posts

Monday, June 14, 2010

Peaches

Peaches. Colored pencil on Strathmore Bristol paper. Copyright 2010.

Last summer, I spent a day helping to can peaches. My job was to wash the peaches, then blanch them for forty seconds before plunging them into cold water. I also peeled and cut some of them and put them in the jars. Others prepared the syrup and placed them in the canners. I felt like I was living in a different era, but it was fun, and the results are delicious!