Bourbon and Peach Preserves Recipe

As the supply for peaches is the highest during this time of year, this Bourbon and Peach Preserves recipe gives you another reason to keep buying them! This peach preserves recipe is made with fresh peaches with a touch of Bourbon to heighten the flavor.

Guys, I am so excited! I’ll tell you why. My friend “put me on to game” a few weeks ago by telling me in conversation that she ordered a 25-pound box of peaches from The Peach Truck. I have never heard of this, but the fact that she had a huge box of peaches was enough for me to become curious. The Peach Truck does a yearly summer road trip to major cities to sell fresh and juicy peaches along with a slew of other products like jams, sauces, and even cookbooks! I could not believe that in my 37 years of living on this planet, I have never heard of this place. 

So, did I order an obscene box of peaches? Uhhhh, yeah! I absolutely LOOOOOOVE peaches. It is arguably my favorite fruit, next to dark cherries.

When I told my husband about my peach box order, he immediately thought that I was a crazy person and asked me what I am going to do with my box of peaches? After I tried to convince him that ordering a 25-pound box of peaches was completely sane, I did start to think about what I would do with all of those peaches, and the first thing I thought of was canning. The only thing I know to do with canning fruit is making preserves. That, I know how to do it.

How to make Peach Preserves

Making peach preserves is really simple. Also, this recipe requires no pectin. That’s right. It’s going to thicken up with its natural ability to do so. I figured after I eat a whole bunch of peaches and freeze some of them for future use. I would make 6 oz cans of peach preserves and give them out as gifts to my neighbors and friends along with my Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits. Isn’t that a nice gesture?

Making these peach preserves is super easy. In fact, making these preserves gave me a glimpse of the type of grandmother I’m going to be. 

All you have to do it take a bunch of ripe peaches, peel the skin off using this easy and simple method that I discussed in a previous blog post, cut them up, and put them in a large bowl with some lemon juice and sugar, and leave them coerced in plastic for about an hour so the peaches release its natural flavor. 

After you’ve mascurated the peaches, you boil them for about an hour and then smash them up using a potato masher and continue to simmer. Turn off the heat and they will begin to thicken even more. Now that is the basic easy-to-make peach preserves. 

Of course, I had to go the extra mile by adding another flavor. Bourbon seemed to be a natural choice to me and believe me, you can get a hint of it with every bite, but you can leave out if you want. This Bourbon Peach Jam is a great option for gifts. 

Because I’m thinking of ways to make these peach preserves more special when I give them out as gifts, I made my biscuits along with a delicious butter to top them that is also made of butter, cinnamon, maple syrup, and Bourbon (of course). My husband, could-not-get-enough we must have eaten half of the batch of the biscuits with the peach preserves combined. Needless to say, we were beyond stuffed. We couldn’t eat another bite. I cannot wait to make peach preserve and biscuit baskets! I think I’ll also make cute little recipe cards with this recipe for peach preserves attached for an added touch.

So, when you see those sales in the grocery store where a pound of peaches is about .88 to .99 cents a pound, grab as many as you can, make these preserves, and make a huge batch of these biscuits. You’ll come back and thank me. 

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More Peach Recipes

If you like recipes like this one, you will enjoy the ones below!

• Homemade Peach Cobbler
• Peach Slab Pie
• Dairy-Free Peach Ice Cream
• Peach and Strawberry Shortcake

Bourbon and Peach Preserves Recipe

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• Author: Nicole Nared-Washington from Brown Sugar Food Blog
• Total Time: 1 hour 50 mins
• Yield: 2 1x

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Here is an easy recipe for Bourbon and Peach Preserves that is a perfect use for extra fresh peaches. Serve on fresh biscuits or toasted bread.

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Ingredients

Units USM Scale 1x2x3x

• 10 large peaches, ripe
• 1/2 c. fresh lemon juice
• 1 1/2 c. sugar
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. cornstarch
• 1/3 c. Bourbon

BUTTER RECIPE

• 1 stick + 2 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
• 1/2 tsp. Cinnamon
• 2 maple syrup
• 1/2 tbsp. Bourbon

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Instructions

1. Bring a large pot of water to steam, not boiling. Also, fill a large bowl with ice and water. Set the bowl aside.
2. Once the pot has come to steam, place a few peaches in hot water for about 2 minutes to loosen the screen of the peaches. Once the peach skin is loose to the touch, you use a slotted spoon and place in the cold water immediately for about 30 minutes. Just long enough to cool the peach.
3. Use your hands and peel the skin of the peaches. It should come off easily. Set the peach aside. Continue this process for all peaches.
4. Cut the peaches into slices. They don’t have to be perfect. Discard the pit. Place the sliced peaches in a large bowl. Once you have all peaches cut, pour over the lemon juice, one and a half cups of sugar, and salt. Use a large spoon and stir. Cover the bowl in plastic wrap and leave out at room temperature for, at least, 1 hour.
5. Pour the peaches and liquid in a large pot and bring to a boil on medium heat. Allow cooking for about 45 minutes on a steady boil, stirring intermittently. After 45 minutes, reduce the heat slightly and use a potato masher and smash the peaches leaving slight chunks of the fruit in the mixture. The preserves will thicken more. Add the Bourbon to the mixture and stir.
6. After about 15 minutes, Add the cornstarch with about 1 tsp of the peach liquid into a small ramekin and stir to dissolve the cornstarch. Add cornstarch to the peach preserve pot and stir. Turn heat down to low for about 5 minutes and then take off the heat and allow it to completely cool.
7. Once cooled, pour into mason jars until almost full. Close tightly with the lid and place in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
8. NOTE: If you want to add more Bourbon flavor, once you’ve poured the preserves in your jars, top off with an extra teaspoon of Bourbon and stir in the jar and then close. I did this for one of my jars and loved it.
9. NOTE: If you plan to make my Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits and would like to make the butter that I mentioned in my blog post, here is how you make it.
10. Combine the 1 stick of butter, maple syrup, cinnamon, and Bourbon into a medium bowl and stir until combined and smooth. Once the biscuits have come out of the oven and are still warm, top off with butter.

• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hour 20 mins
• Category: condiments
• Method: Boil
• Cuisine: American

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