Canning Party: Take Two!

If you read Saturday's entry, the original canning party was a disaster/fiasco. (You'd think that would abbreviate into "disco"...)

Luckily, today was Labor Day and no one was working. So to commemorate the day, we labored! Matt, Tim, Heather, Liz and I canned 28 jars of peachy goodness!! (Lesley supervised and taught us how to play cribbage.)

This is how the day went:

First, Matt and I went over to Lesley and Tim's. The canner and the various pots were already on the stove and filled with boiling water. Matt got the syrup started and prepped the first batch of jars.

Heather and Liz were on their way. In the meanwhile, I set to blanching peaches. (It turns the water a pretty pink color.)

Then I passed them onto Tim who slipped the skins. And finally, they reached Matt to get hacked in half and pitted. The girls got here in time to help pack the jars and pour syrup. And we had our first 7 jars of peaches in the canner! While we were waiting for them to cook for the 3o minutes, Liz decided it would be a good opportunity for her to take a nap.

So Lesley taught me and Heather how to play cribbage!! Matt suffered our one and only casualty when he tipped the lid off a pot towards his wrist instead of away from his body. *ouch!* But at the end of the day, we had rows and rows of beautiful peaches. And they lived happily ever after.

The End