Peach Pie Filling - Canned

Canning season is here.  I get tired of just canning peaches so I hunted the internet a few years back and this is the best of the best.  We love this pie filling.  If you don't want to make a pie crust a quick dessert is to make a graham cracker crust. Next combined cream cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla.  Top it all off with a jar of pie filling and you have a yummy and quick last minute dessert. 

PEACH PIE FILLING
By: Home Run Recipes

6 quarts Sliced Fresh Peaches
7 Cups Sugar
2 Cups + 3 Tbl Clear Jel Powder
5 1/4 Cups Cold Water
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Almond extract
1 3/4 cups Bottled Lemon Juice

Combine water, sugar, clear jel, and cinnamon and almond extract in a large pot. 
Stir and cook over medium heat until mixture thickens and begins to bubble.  Add Lemon juice then boil for 1 minute, stirring constantly.  Add the drained and sliced peaches.  heat this mixture for 3 minutes more.

Water Bath for 40 minutes. 

*The original Recipe said this makes 7 quarts, but  it's more like 10 quarts.
If you only want to make a jar here's the amounts.  Or maybe you have just a few peaches left this should help.
1 quart  of  Peach Pie Filling
3 1/2 cups Sliced Fresh Peaches
1 Cup Sugar
1/4 Cup + 1 Tbl Clear Jel Powder
3/4 Cups Cold Water
1/8 tsp Cinnamon
1/8 tsp Almond extract
1/4 cup Bottled Lemon Juice

Gumball Machine

My daughter has this shirt that she completely loves. I thought it was really cute too. Unfortunately, it is starting to wear out. So, I got to work to make her a new one:) I cut it out of t-shirt vinyl, added a few buttons and she couldn't be happier!

Here is the original shirt. I got it at a garage sell. She has worn it out and stained it. 

Here is a simple purple shirt from walmart that I refashioned to look like her favorite gumball shirt:)

NOTE: These are for personal use only. You can NOT sell any items made from this file or any modification of this file. You can NOT sell these files or any modifications of these files. Please respect the time and effort that went into these.

 











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One Bad A... Chick

Sorry about the unfinished post this morning about the gumball shirt. I am still working on it and accidentally published it instead of saving it as a draft:) I should have it ready for you later this week:) Today I went to drive myself to the gym and the car was totally dead. To my horror, I saw the car door had been left open and the over head light and side door light had been on all night. I got a neighbor to try and jump start it, but it was so dead that it didn't even work. So, she drove me to Checkers and I purchased a new battery. At first I was going to wait and let Hubby change it when he got home from work, BUT after debating for a little bit, I decided to try and replace it myself. I NAILED it! The car is working perfectly. When I took the old battery back to the store to get a small reimbursement, the guy working there couldn't believe I had done it myself. I showed him my greased stained fingers and said, "I don't normally sport this look." As I was walking out of the store, he turned to his coworker and said, "That is one bad a.. chick!" I laughed out loud. I feel AWESOME! I am so excited to have done it myself.

History of Aprons

The History of Aprons

The principle use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress

underneath, but along with that, it served as a potholder for 

removing hot pans from the oven.

It was wonderful for drying children's tears and

an occasion was even used for cleaning dirty ears.

From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks,

and sometimes half hatched eggs to be finished in the

warming oven.

When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.

And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.

Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.

Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.

From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables.  After the peas had been 

shelled, it carried out the hulls.

In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.

When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how

much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.

When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the proch, waved her

apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.

It will be a long time before someone invents something that will

replace that "old-time apron" that served so many purposes.

REMEMBER: Grandma used her apron to set her hot baked apple pies 

on the windowsill to cool.  Her granddaughters set theirs on the 

windowsill to thaw.

They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on 

that apron.  I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron except LOVE.

*I received this poem  from my mother-in-law with a darling apron last year for christmas. 

We don't know who the author is.