There is something with me and peaches.
I think it's something about the fleeting quality of peaches. They are only here for a couple of precious months and then . . . gone. I have to get my fill while I can still get them! These cases of PERFECT peaches at Trader Joe's for $5.99/12 were just too much for me to resist.
And that's where it all started. I found the perfect peaches, and then I started having visions of these peach dumplings Christina taught me about last year. Allow me to explain . . .
1. First, you make a recipe for a double pie crust (here is my favorite). You cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let it sit while you prepare the peaches.
2. Then, you get a pot of boiling water. Place each peach carefully in the pot (I do 3 at a time) and submerge them for 30-60 seconds. Then immediately remove them and place them in a sink or bowl full of cold water.
3. Peel the peaches with your fingers. The skins will come right off! [The day I discovered this trick was a happy, happy day.]
4. Halve and pit the peaches. Don't forget which halves go together!
5. Top one half of each peach with a firmly packed 1/2 Tablespoon of brown sugar. Sprinkle with cinnamon!
6. Press the two peach halves back together with the sugar and cinnamon inside.
7. On a well-floured surface, roll out your double pie crust into one large rectangle. Cut into six equal squares, (approximately 5-inch squares).
8. Place a peach on each square. Pull corners up to wrap peach in the pastry.
Perhaps you will be better at making them look pretty than me. I just wanted to wrap 'em tight!
9. Place dumplings in 9x13 pan.
10. Make the sauce: 2 cups water, 1 1/4 cups sugar, 1/2 tsp. cinnamon. Boil; simmer 5 minutes. Add 1/4 cup butter and stir until melted. Pour over and around dumplings.
11. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes. Some of them will break open, but they'll still be beautiful and delicious. Serve with vanilla ice cream, and spoon extra sauce over the top!
Dan-o popped in tonight for a visit (he is at a training for work in the area). He said he would travel 2,000 miles any day, just for these dumplings! Luckily, I gave him some for the road so he doesn't have to pay $13 for his continental breakfast tomorrow! Perhaps not the most nutritious breakfast ever, but healthier than a couple of doughnuts and juice (and a hundred times yummier)!
15 comments:
people have started taunting me with yummy peach stories...the horror is we CAN NOT find fabulous peaches here--not even good ones. Those dumplings look delicious--I am going to save that recipe in my brain for when yummy peaches are back in my life!
Mercy me Jenn! Those are so beautiful and my mouth is just watering from reading this!
Those look amazing! Any chance you have leftovers?
Wow. Those look divine.
Thank you for the recipe! That looks amazing! I need to call you soon and get your apple dumpling recipe. Also, do you sometimes confuse your husband for his brother? Because I just did.
A-mazing! Seriously want to try these this weekend. And I just pinned them on Pinterest. They look
Ben told me about these, so I'm glad you posted instructions! I can't wait to try them. Did I tell we got DELICIOUS peaches from a local farm for $16 for a 1/2 bushel?? I got around 60 divine peaches for just $16!! We ate peaches until we were sick, made peach pie, peach jam, peach cobbler, bottled peaches, and froze some. But now I see I missed the boat and need to try peach dumplings!
Beautiful... absolutely beautiful! I can nearly taste them just looking at the pictures!Oh I need peaches right now!
Griff, those pictures are beautiful. You are becoming quite the little photographer. I think you should frame those pictures and hang them around your kitchen. Or better yet, my kitchen. I want to improve my photography skills. Remember in college when I used to take pictures all the time? On film. I still haven't gotten another lense and am completely paralyzed by the overwhlem of that project.
In response to Brittany's question: remember that time when I came home from a hockey game and Dano was sitting on the couch in 315 and I had never met him before and I thought it was Ben (who was in Guatemala) and I was so happy to see him for a brief second, and then I was so sad for a brief second (because he was supposed to be a missionary) and then I was just confused because it wasn't quite Ben? That was funny. Remember when I played hockey in Provo? That is a weird weird non-connected memory in my life.
Anyway, moral of the story is...nice post.
These...look....AMAZING. Delicious. I must try. Thanks for sharing!
Oh these make me hungry just looking at the pictures! Will peaches still be on when we get there? I'll help with the dumplings so I can learn. Lucky Dan and good timing for his visit. I laugh everytime someone confuses Dan and Ben because they SO don't look alike to me. But they must to others because it happens all the time. I'm just their lucky mom!
Jenn those look amaaaazzzingg! We must make some delicious treat when we see you in a few weeks! And I must say way to go with that 50mm lens...you are a pro already!
There is something with me and peaches too! I have about 20+ peaches from Brigham City in my kitchen so finding your recipe came at just the right moment. Mmmm.
Love your blog BTW!
Sounds SO yummy! I'll keep this on my 'to make' list. Thanks for sharing!
HOLY COW!! These look incredible! And they look like about 1000 times as much work as my 9 month pregnant self is willing to put into anything right now. I wish I'd been at your house when you made them! :)
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