Texas Peaches and Peach Recipes

Peaches are in season! Unfortunately because of the hard freeze in the Texas Hill Country on Sunday March 30, 2003 - the unique Fredericksburg-Stonewall peaches are in short supply. But don't let that stop you from finding other examples of the fine, ripe fruit for your Summertime cooking.

In Texas, cling peaches, meaning peaches whose flesh clings to the pit, generally ripen in May. Semi-freestones, not quite as clingy, ripen in June. Freestones, whose flesh readily seperates from the pit, generally ripens in June and July.

Use peaches to make our famous peach cobbler, or one of our special pies. Here's a complete list of Texas Cooking's recipes and articles using peaches.

Articles:

• Peach Cobbler Face-Off
  by Eleanor Bradshaw
  Two great peach cobbler recipes
• Making Jams and Preserves
  by Patricia Mitchell
  Capture Summer flavors into delicious preserves and jellies. Covers peach preserves, strawberry preserves, watermelon rind preserves, and an easy strawberry freezer jam.
• Peaches For Dessert
  by Dorothy Sibole
  Peaches are delicious and ripe in the summertime. Learn how to select the best peaches, and make a peach pie with them. Try a making a more distinctive peach dessert - White Chocolate Bread Pudding with Peach Compote.

Recipes:

• Grandma's Peach Cobbler
• Old Fashioned Peach Cobbler
• Jo Nell's Peach Preserves
• Fresh Peach Pie
• Peach Custard Pie
• Peach Praline Pie
• Peach Ice Cream
• Spiced Peaches

• Habenero-Peach Glazed Ham

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