Preserves (homemade preserved fruits for winter)

Spiced Georgia Peaches in a Jar

Name: Spiced Georgia Peaches in a Jar
Total time: 45 min
Ingredients: Firm peaches — 8; Sugar — 300 g; Cider vinegar — 200 ml; Water — 200 ml; Cloves — 8; Cinnamon stick — 1; Allspice berries — 4

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Peach halves preserved in a spiced vinegar syrup with cloves and cinnamon: sweet and tangy, they traditionally accompanied ham on Southern tables.

Preserves (homemade preserved fruits for winter)

Peach halves preserved in a spiced vinegar syrup with cloves and cinnamon: sweet and tangy, they traditionally accompanied ham on Southern tables.

In Georgia, peaches abound, and Southern cooks knew how to keep them for winter in a spiced syrup of cloves and cinnamon. A jar was placed near the ham, and their sweet-tartness cut nicely through the salt — a small luxury that even war rationing left us, for these preserves were made beforehand. Nothing was wasted at our table: that was the spirit of those years.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ingredients

•Ripe but firm peaches — a full basket (base)
•Sugar — equal parts with vinegar (syrup)
•Cider vinegar — as needed (syrup / preservation)
•Cloves — a few (spice)
•Cinnamon stick — 1 (spice)

How it was made : Before widespread refrigeration, canning with sugar and vinegar was the common way to preserve summer fruits for winter — a central domestic skill in American households, especially during rationing.