Have you ever gotten peaches from the Youth for Christ fundraiser they have every summer? If not, you should give them a try not only will you be supporting a good cause but you will be bringing home fruit that just screams summer. So let’s talk peaches!

Peaches:

native to China but brought to Louisiana from the French

are Georgia’s nickname the Peach State

good source of vitamin A and C

have two variations clingstone and freestone

should have a slight give to your fingertips when ripe

National month is August

largest cobbler made every year is 11ft by 5ft

are a member of the rose family and closely related to the almond

largest producer is China

heaviest recorded peach was 1 pound 12 ounces

are mostly produced in California for the US

Here is a pretty dessert to use up a few peaches from your box if you can’t eat them all fresh. We definitely try to.

Peach Blueberry Cobbler

In a sauce pan, mix together 1 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons cornstarch. Then, add 2 teaspoons lime or lemon juice and 6 cups sliced peaches.

Cook on medium heat and boil for 1 min to get a thickened mixture. While waiting for this to happen, you can mix the biscuit ingredients together.

You will need 6 tablespoons shortening, 2 cups flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon baking powder and 1 teaspoon salt

As you can see the shortening I used comes in sticks like butter. It is so much easier to use. A little more expensive then the canister of shortening, but also a good option if you don’t use a whole lot of shortening.

After cutting the shortening in with the other ingredients, you can add the 1 cup of milk.

When it is all mixed together it should look like this:

Now back to the peaches, after it has boiled a minute or so, add 2 cups blueberries. I add these after because, I feel like if you add them before the boiling process, they will pop and you won’t get the great color of the peaches too. Everything may have been just blue.

Now pour this mixture into a 9×13 baking dish and while still hot scoop the biscuits on top like so….

Then, pop them in the oven, preheated to 400 degrees for 25-30 minutes.

I had some extra dough so I made two on a baking dish and my husband and I had a little treat!

1 cup sugar

2 tablespoons cornstarch

2 teaspoons lime or lemon juice

6 cups sliced peaches

2 cups blueberries

6 tablespoons shortening

2 cups flour

2 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

In saucepan, combine first 4 ingredients. Bring to a boil for about a minute. While waiting for the peaches to thicken, cut shortening into flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Then add milk and stir. When peaches have boiled for a minute, add blueberries and pour into 9×13 baking dish. Then scoop 12 biscuits on top of the peach blueberry mixture. Bake at 400 degrees for 25-30 minutes.

Lantana-one of my new favorite flowers. My sister is actually the one that first bought this neat flower. This year I got the pink variety and my mom has the orange. The cool thing is that the little flowers change color as they mature. So cool!

Matthew 6:28-29 

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.