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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Corpus Christi,Texas Z9
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Older gentleman that usually sells tomatoes on the side of the road gave me a dozen or so of these peaches to try. He said they were from Fredricksburg Texas and that they were a new variety but couldnt recall the name. they sure are pretty
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Vaasa, Finland, latitude N 63°
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What a delicious looking peaches. How do they taste?
I love tree ripe peaches and we have been lucky to grow them here in Wisconsin. This year two of our trees had a lot of them and I do still have some waiting for processing. I have preserved them in brandy, made jam and habanero peach jelly. ![]() |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Southwestern Ontario, Canada
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Yummmmm....those peaches look good. Wonder which kind they are.
Svalli, could you post your habanero peach jelly recipe? That sounds delish! |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Vaasa, Finland, latitude N 63°
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My patch did not set totally, but that makes it good to eat with pancakes. It really wakes me up in the morning, the heat is more than I expected just from two habs, but it still is mellow enough to enjoy. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Corpus Christi,Texas Z9
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The man told me to give them a couple days to ripen further unless I was going to use them in a pie, etc.
I dont know much about peaches but am looking forward to tasting them in the next couple days. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Rock Hill, SC
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I think you're going to be in heaven.
![]() If the peaches are particularly fuzzy, you might want to wash them just for texture. For fresh eating, I wait until peaches, pears, etc. are slightly soft. If you want to ripen peaches, pears, etc. in a hurry, you seal them up in a paper bag and rotate the bag every day (to avoid soft spots). Some of them do rot from the inside, but most of them come out perfectly ripe. I need to track down the best places to buy peaches in and around Houston. I would start making pies if I had a steady source for them. I actually made nectarine pie a few years ago when the nectarines were particularly good.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2006
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I am really looking forward to tasting them but I will be patient and let them ripen up good. I havent eaten a peach in years.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2006
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tasted my first one tonight, very good but I noticed that they have softened very quickly stored at room temp in my house. I will need to eat the rest fairly quickly it seems. Which is not a problem as good as they tasted
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Den of Drunken Fools
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We drive to Fredricksburg every so often and buy peaches from the farms
The ones on the side of the road there are a trap. they cost around $25 a box (1/2 bushel). If you get 10 boxes from the farm they are around $8 a box. There is no one kind of peach in Fredricksburg. ![]() http://www.texaspeaches.com/ http://www.texaspeaches.com/ripedate.html IF you are so inclined here is a drink concoction I made up that is real good. I like to drink one in the morning while I watch every body else go to work. 1 blender full of frozen stonewall peaches from Fredricksburg peaches.( You can use some other peach but it wont be as good.) 1/2 cup of Bombay sapphire gin. 1/4 cup sugar. 1 small bottle of tonic water. Experiment and mix booze and such until you get a drink that is about the same as a frozen Margarita. Pour in a frozen glass and have at 7 in the morning. Call work and tell them your sick and have another. Life's to short to work all of the time. ![]() Worth |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2006
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They softened up pretty quickly so I had my first one last night. Nice yellow flesh and very tasty. I only wish I had more now.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: MO z6a near St. Louis
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You're making me hungry! There are no local peaches this year--they all got nipped by the freeze this spring. Otherwise we go to a U-pick place on the other side of the Missouri River and pick way too many and have to chomp our way through them as fast as possible.
![]() Mmm. Peach pie. My favorite.
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