[Sca-cooks] Preserving peaches

[Stefan li Rous]

Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:38:48 -0500
Going through my back digests I saw this message from Talana from  
August 25:

<<< Some weeks back, someone mentioned the Martha Washington's  
cookbook's recipe for preserving peaches in wine and, as the Oklahoma  
peach crop was coming in just then, I gave it a whirl.  I got a half- 
bushel of Porter peaches (a variety of freestones - Augustas, I think)  
and, deciding to go on an all-Ansteorra theme, a bottle of a Texas  
moscato (Ste. Genevieve), and got to work.

The result was beautiful and absolutely delicious.  The wine and peach  
juice made a lovely, rosy syrup with some of the richest flavor I've  
ever gotten putting up peaches.  The moscato added a light honey tone  
to the taste.

This first attempt was a complete success.  I'm having to ration how  
much I let the husband put on his ice cream/pound cake/oatmeal so  
we'll have some to enjoy this winter.

If I were to try using ingredients closer to those of the time period  
of the recipe, what varieties of peaches and what wines would be  
appropriate equivalents? >>>

Have you done any more experiments with this recipe? How did they come  
out?

Also, I don't have this cookbook. Can someone post this particular  
recipe?

Thanks,
   Stefan
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