Homemade Peach Jam Sauce

Yum! There is just some­thing about sum­mer­time and fresh peaches! We’ve been find­ing some really great deals at our local gro­cery stores on peaches in the last two weeks–and some of the peaches have actu­ally been sooooooo good that you wouldn’t even know they weren’t fresh off a tree. So, we loaded up on quite a few pounds & I made a few things. The smell was incredible!

First up, I wanted to make some sort of peach sauce or jam. I didn’t want to mess with can­ning or even freezer jam, so I whipped some up much like the  home­made straw­berry sauce I make. It turned out soooooo good! Too runny to be truly a jam, but not nearly as runny as a true syrup, so I called it…

Peach Jam Sauce

(yield: 6 cups)

Ingre­di­ents:

- 9 ripe peaches

- 3/4 C sugar

- 2T lemon juice

- 1t corn starch mixed with water

Direc­tions:

1. Peel & pit the peaches. You can use the blanch­ing method in boil­ing water, or just peel them with a peeler or knife (that’s what I did). Then, cut them up into small pieces.

2. In a large pot on medium-low heat, add the lemon juice & all the peach pieces. Mash & stir the peaches until most large chunks are gone.

3. Add sugar & let dissolve.

4. Cook on high (boil­ing) for about 5 min­utes, stir­ring continuously,

5. Remove from heat.

6. Mix corn starch in a bowl with just enough water to cover the starch. Stir into the peaches. Let cool & then eat!!

Seri­ously, this is deli­cious and has so many uses–on top of pan­cakes, waf­fles, toast or ice cream! Mix with ice cream & milk for your own fresh peach milk shake. Mix in to plain yogurt for your own health­ier “fruit on the bot­tom” vari­ety. Or, just dive in with a spoon!

ENJOY!!!

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