My Mother-in-law gave me 2 large boxes of peaches from an Amish auction for my birthday!  They were sweet and juicy and more than we could eat before they went bad.  I decided to freeze them to preserve as much of the fresh flavor as possible.

I made a few mistakes freezing the peaches, but the method I used worked realy well.  We’ve already eaten a couple of jars, and they were fabulous.

Step 1.  Boil a large pot of water.  Submerge the peaches for 1 minute.  Immediatly transfer the peaches to a bowl of ice water to stop the cooking or rinse under cool water in a colandar. 

Step 2.  Slip the skins off the peaches, and cut into slices, removing the pits.

Step 3.  Drop the sliced peaches into a bowl of light syrup with Fruit Fresh.  You can use white grape juice instead of light syrup.  I used 2 cups of sugar, 12 cups of water and 4Tablespoons of fruit fresh.  I didn’t know at the time that I was supposed to boil it.  I just mixed it all together in the big blue bowl and gave it a very good stirring.

4.  I used a measuring cup to slip 4 cups of peaches into quart size freezing bags.  Then I added enough syrup mixture from the bowl to make sure all the peaches were covered. 

When I ran out of freezer bags, I sterilized some canning jars and found they worked well too.  I can fit more bags in my freezer but the jars are easier to fill without making a mess.

Syrup For Fresh Peaches To Deep Freeze