Mmmmmm Peaches

[NOCK NOCK]

My fav fruit. They looked so cool I had to snap a pic.
Anyone have a good cobbler recipe?

[CLARKTAR]

Are the fruit stands in eastern WA selling them yet?

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[Naches Sportsman]

Yes

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Those look soooooo good!!!!!! $

[Southpole]

Drove to Mt. Vernon yesterday to pick frost peaches from a friends tree. That sucker was loaded and they were huge! I'm surprised they turned out so well this year considering how wet and cold it's been half this summer. We'll be canning ours.

[pianoman9701]

One of the people who came to our party Saturday brought cubed and skinned white peaches with homemade mozzarella with a balsamic vinaigrette. It was very good.

[DOUBLELUNG]

I just made a cobbler it was awesome.  Lightly grease a 9x13 baking pan.  Blanche, peel, pit and dice 8 lbs peaches, add 1c brown sugar (cinnamon optional, I don't).  Layer in baking pan.  Combine 2c rolled oats, 1c brown sugar and 1/2c softened butter and mix until all oats are buttered.  Add to top of peaches and lightly spread, leave surface coarse and uneven.  Bake at 375 for 45 minutes.  This is sweet but not super sweet, goes well with vanilla ice cream, cool whip etc.

We had an amazing fruit set on all our peaches, had to thin very heavily.  The Red Haven is done, approx 80 lbs harvested.  Next up will be the Elegant Lady peach in mid-August, and ending with the JD Hale Peach in September.  In the dry east side areas, the only thing easier to grow at home than peaches are apricots (we have one also). 

[Camo Queen]

Those look amazing! I'm dying for my in-laws peach tree to ripen up!

[Mark Brenckle]

I have one scraggly peach tree that for the first time actually has 4 or 5 peaches on it. They're starting to turn orange but they're still very firm. I might have to bring them inside today or tomorrow to keep them from getting eaten by the birds.

[NOCK NOCK]

Thanks for the recipe Doublelung, will be doing that very soon.

I have managed to get 2 peach trees growing from seed this year, google tells you that its very hard to accomplish. I cold stratified and then planted about 50 seeds...only the 2 grew and are surviving so far. As a back up plan, I ordered a couple trees that will be ready for pickup next spring.

[DOUBLELUNG]

Thanks for the recipe Doublelung, will be doing that very soon.

I have managed to get 2 peach trees growing from seed this year, google tells you that its very hard to accomplish. I cold stratified and then planted about 50 seeds...only the 2 grew and are surviving so far. As a back up plan, I ordered a couple trees that will be ready for pickup next spring.

Nice!  I've bought all my yard trees as grafted stock from either Van Well or C&O (we had 9 fruit trees at our previous residence).  I have recently started rooting rose cuttings for my wife. 

[NRA4LIFE]

We just picked up a 25 lb box at Thorp off of I90 for $9.95.

[daddysprad]

My favorite recipe is for the dutch oven but works in the regular oven.  10 in oven.  5 lbs peaches sliced and lightly sprinkled with sugar left overnight in fridge.  Next day (or two) arrange peaches in the bottom, evenly add a dry white or yellow cake mix, pour a coke or pepsi (not diet)over the top.  You can add cinnamon but I like a little nutmeg sprinkled on top.  Cook for 45 minutes.  Same recipe we used in scouts 45 years ago.

[jackmaster]

Damn it, where is KC. CRACKER!! He always had good recipese.. Those look tasty, damn..

[NRA4LIFE]

He would have claimed he had a patent on it and you couldn't use it anyway.

[DOUBLELUNG]

My favorite recipe is for the dutch oven but works in the regular oven.  10 in oven.  5 lbs peaches sliced and lightly sprinkled with sugar left overnight in fridge.  Next day (or two) arrange peaches in the bottom, evenly add a dry white or yellow cake mix, pour a coke or pepsi (not diet)over the top.  You can add cinnamon but I like a little nutmeg sprinkled on top.  Cook for 45 minutes.  Same recipe we used in scouts 45 years ago.

Thanks!  I'm going to try this one

[jackmaster]

He would have claimed he had a patent on it and you couldn't use it anyway.

[pianoman9701]

He would have claimed he had a patent on it and you couldn't use it anyway.

He's a pretty good guy.

[jackmaster]

Where i work at this family had a huge peach tree, right here in sea tac , I didn't know peaches would grow on this side of the mountains,can yeahs these peaches were the size of grapefruits and insanely juicy and awesome, after they were heavy with fruit the dude cut the tree down and ground the stump, I couldn't believe it. They were the best and now they are gone sorry got off topic

[DOUBLELUNG]

Elegant Lady about a week away from ripe

[Sitka_Blacktail]

Drove to Mt. Vernon yesterday to pick frost peaches from a friends tree. That sucker was loaded and they were huge! I'm surprised they turned out so well this year considering how wet and cold it's been half this summer. We'll be canning ours.

We have two Frost peach trees. Had so many last year that three main branches broke out of our big tree while the family was in Alaska. I pruned it up good this spring and it's coming back nicely, but had few peaches on it this year.  Frost is a great peach for western Washington.

[huntnphool]

I look forward to the Pence and Frog Hollow Peaches every year, the brix levels are unbelievable!

[huntnphool]

Always reminds me of Kramer on Seinfeld

[DOUBLELUNG]

I look forward to the Pence and Frog Hollow Peaches every year, the brix levels are unbelievable!

Curses!  I've considered buying a sugar refractometer ...

[huntnphool]

I look forward to the Pence and Frog Hollow Peaches every year, the brix levels are unbelievable!

Curses!  I've considered buying a sugar refractometer ...

 I know this grocery store is not close to you, but they test the brix levels daily and post them for customers. http://peachorama.com 

[DOUBLELUNG]

I look forward to the Pence and Frog Hollow Peaches every year, the brix levels are unbelievable!

Curses!  I've considered buying a sugar refractometer ...

 I know this grocery store is not close to you, but they test the brix levels daily and post them for customers. http://peachorama.com 

That's really nice - takes the guesswork out of buying.  I suspect ours are teens to 20s when we pick.

[MtnMuley]

.........some of us eastsiders have other ways of knowing when the peach is prime   Peaches are hard to beat, but when a guy gets the right nectarine at the right time, they're unbeatable. Actually switched to canning necs, but they have to be exactly right.

Back to Nock's original question: is there really a bad peach cobbler?!

[NOCK NOCK]

So true!!  For a quick and easy one, grocery stores sell a fruit cobbler mix, can use any fruit, fresh or canned.
It's made by Louisiana....the fish fry folks...I have used it with peaches and huckleberries, its pretty darn good for a quickie.