Bourbon Peaches

Total Time: 1 hr 47 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 47 mins

Ingredients

• 1 bushel peach
• 2 cups bourbon
• 4 cups sugar
• 2 cups filtered water
• nutmeg
• 10 allspice berries
• cinnamon stick (optional, for can garnish)

Recipe

• 1 select your peaches, its best if you have a relationship with a particular orchard.
• 2 i always buy my peaches at gold's orchard, in stonewall, texas.
• 3 lynette gold gives me the heads up by email when to run on over and pick up those wonderful sweet perfect peaches that the family grows.
• 4 make sure that the peach is freestone.
• 5 bring a large pot filled half way with water to a boil, reduce the heat and keep just at a low boil.
• 6 place whole peaches in water for 2 minutes (this may vary, depending on the ripeness of the peach-the riper they are the shorter it will take) remove from water, let cool until you can handle the fruit.
• 7 remove pit by slicing peach in half length-wise, then peel.
• 8 place fruit in clean hot jars (i use wide mouth jars for this).
• 9 pack tightly.
• 10 meanwhile, take 4 cups sugar, 2 cups filtered water, 2 cups bourbon (i use ira's canadian hunter) cinnamon to taste, nutmeg to taste and allspice berries- about 10 or so- bring to a boil, stir until sugar is dissolved- let simmer while peeling peaches.
• 11 should be reduced by 1/3.
• 12 ladle bourbon syrup over peaches, leaving about 1 inch head space at the top of the jar.
• 13 use new seals and clean rings, screwing tightly down on the top of the jar.
• 14 place jars in boiling water bath for 45 minutes.
• 15 when you remove the jars from the water bath, the bourbon syrup should still be boiling.
• 16 set jars aside, allow to cool.