Peach preserves recipe: so simple!

The peach is a refreshing and juicy fruit (85% water and citric acid) that appears on our tables from late spring (first fruits) until late summer. Besides being a good source of minerals and vitamins, for its low calories, only 28 calories per hg, the peach is considered the ideal fruit for any nutritional regimen.

Under the velvety skin yellow-reddish colored there is a sweet, juicy and fragrant, white, yellow or red pulp that surrounds a stone containing a large seed.

The peach is also used in cooking for various preparations such as jam, liqueur, syrup, ice cream and winter stores as the excellent syruped peaches. The canneries use them in a variety of ways from syruped peaches to flavoring, for example, tea. In cosmetics the peach is used for the preparation of creams and face masks.

However, for the peaches preserve, the recipe is quite simple:

• 1 kg of peaches
• ½ kg of sugar

Preparation of the peach preserve

Cut the peaches into segments without peeling them (of course, they must be washed first) and put them in one or more sterilized jars and after being covered with sugar. Close the jars tightly and boil them in a water bath for 30 minutes. Leave them to cool in their water.

Many, alternatively, boil the slices of peaches directly in the pan until they becomes mush, then add the sugar in the proportion indicated and defer to fire for an hour, mixing often. Finally add a bit of lemon and put it into jar/s.