Peaches

 Another autumn and another mass gift of peaches. Black boy peaches from previously mentioned friend and normal peaches from my inlaws. 

Another year of "what shall I do with this lot?"

We're not eating bottled peaches any more than we have previously. I think we've eaten one bottle in the past year. We're still well overstocked with jams and jellies. Even after a summer of renovations and making scones with jam and cream for lunches.

We are out of crumbles in the freezer. So I decided on peach crumbles using this previous recipe. We are also out of fruit leather, so I will use the black boy peaches for that. 

I still had plenty of peaches left over after making several peach crumbles so I decided to try drying them.

They were washed, stones removed and cut into fairly thin slices before being laid out on dehydrator trays.  They dried fairly quickly and taste great. I managed quite a good yield from them.

I've kept enough for us and the rest will go for snacks for the grandchildren.