Learn how to preserve peaches using honey with this delicious honey spiced peached recipe!
Honey spiced peaches are a perfect way to preserve peaches using honey, and infuse them with the rich flavors of allspice, clove, and cinnamon!
This is a delicious recipe from the makers of Ball® home canning products. Bonus: your home will smell absolutely amazing while you can up the peaches! Not to mention preserved peaches make a wonderful homemade gift. Tie a ribbon around the top with a cinnamon stick for a quick and inexpensive homemade hostess gift for the upcoming holidays.
This post is sponsored by the makers of Ball® home canning products.*
Why We Love This Recipe
During peach season, you may be wondering, what do I do with all of these peaches!? The short answer? Can them up! We have quite a few peach canning recipes, and these honey spiced peaches are one of our favorites!
Preserved peaches are great to have on hand for whipping up a quick dessert. You can toss them inside a pie, make a fruit cobbler, or simply add them on top of some vanilla ice cream.
The hint of cinnamon, clove, and allspice combine to create a perfectly balanced fall flavor profile to pair with pumpkin spice desserts and baking recipes!
This is a great recipe for anyone new to canning. This is an easy recipe anyone can follow!
Table of contents
Honey Spiced Peaches Ingredients
- Fresh Peaches: You’ll want peaches to be at their peak ripeness, avoid using mushy or overripe fruit. Remember, when you’re canning food, you preserve it exactly as it is!
- Sugar: Sugar is a preservative agent that reduces discoloration and helps the fruit maintain flavor.
- Honey: Adds sweetness and an earthy flavor. We love using local honey!
- Allspice: Adds a wonderful flavor! Did you know this is actually a berry? It’s the unripe fruit of the Pimenta dioica, an evergreen tree in the Myrtle family native to the West Indies, Southern Mexico, and Central America!
- Cloves: These are dried flower buds from an evergreen clove tree with an intense warm flavor and aroma similar to nutmeg.
- Cinnamon: This comes from the inner bark of several tree species. It adds a wonderful flavor to this recipe.
Step by Step Instructions for Honey Spiced Peaches
Be sure to scroll all the way down for the full printable recipe with tips and tricks!
- Prepare the boiling water canner. Start with heating the Ball® Quart Jars in simmering water until ready for use. Do not boil. Wash the lids in warm soapy water and set the bands aside.
- Wash, peel, and pit the peaches. Leave the peaches in halves or cut them into slices, if desired. Treat fruit to prevent browning.
- Combine sugar, water, and honey. Cook until the sugar dissolves. Add peaches in syrup one layer at a time and cook for 3 minutes.
- Pack hot peaches into hot jars leaving ½ inch of headspace. Remove any air bubbles and wipe the rim. Center a hot lid on the jar. Apply band and adjust until its fingertip tight.
- Process filled jars in boiling water canner for 25 minutes, adjusting for altitude. Remove the jars and let cool. Check lids for seal after 24 hours. The lid should not flex up or down when the center is pressed.
Tips for Success & FAQs
To easily peel peaches, cut an X on the bottom and blanch in boiling water for a few minutes until the skin starts to crack. Transfer to cold water then watch as the skin peels off!
To treat peaches to prevent browning, combine 2 tsp Ball® brand Fruit-Fresh with 3 tbsp of water. Toss the peaches into the mixture.
You can also submerge cut peaches in a mixture of ¼ cup of lemon juice and 4 cups of water to prevent browning.
Peaches will turn brown when exposed to air, even when sealed in a sterile jar. To keep the fruit from browning use Fruit-Fresh or lemon juice as stated above.
They will store for 12-18 months. Always store home canned food in a cool, dark place until ready to use, and be sure to refrigerate after opening.
More Recipes for you to Try
If you are looking for more ways to use up your bounty of fresh peaches, try peach ginger butter or low-sugar peach jam!
Try using these honey-spiced peaches in a rustic tart, peach crisp, or make a peach galette (just sub the peaches for the apple filling).
The Recipe
Honey Spiced Peaches
Ingredients
- 8 lb peaches about 24 small
- 1 cup Sugar
- 4 cups Water
- 2 cups Honey
- 1-1/2 tsp Whole Allspice
- 3/4 tsp Whole Cloves
- 3 sticks Cinnamon
- Ball ® brand Fruit-Fresh ® Optional
- 3 Ball® 32 oz quart glass preserving jars
- Ball® freshTech Electric Water Bath Canner + Multicooker Optional
Instructions
- Prepare boiling water canner. Heat jars in simmering water until ready for use. Do not boil. Wash lids in warm soapy water and set bands aside.
- Wash, peel, and pit peaches. Leave peaches in halves or cut into slices, if desired. Treat fruit to prevent browning.
- Combine sugar, water, and honey. Cook until sugar dissolves. Add peaches in syrup one layer at a time and cook for 3 minutes.
- Pack hot peaches into hot jars leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Add 1/2 tsp allspice, 1/4 tsp cloves, and 1 stick cinnamon to each jar.
- Ladle hot syrup over peaches leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Remove air bubbles. Wipe rim and center hot lid on jar. Apply band and adjust until fit is fingertip tight.
- Process filled jars in a boiling water canner for 25 minutes, adjusting for altitude. Remove jars and cool. Check lids for seal after 24 hours. The lid should not flex up and down when the center is pressed.
Notes
*This is a sponsored post that is part of an ongoing partnership with the Fresh Preserving Division of Newell Brands. They have provided jars, equipment and monetary compensation. All thoughts and opinions expressed remain my own.
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