Canning Peaches vs. Eating Peaches

Clingstone is for canning.
Freestone is for eating and cooking.

Fruit Pizza

Crust:
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup butter
2 eggs
Beat well

Add:
2 3/4 cups flour
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
Mix and press on 13 x 9 x 2 cookie sheet. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup sugar and cinnamon mixture. Bake at 400 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

Filling:
16 oz. cream cheese
1 cup sugar
Mix and spread on cooled crust.

Topping:
2 large cans of pineapple tidbits
2-6 sliced kiwi
1 quart strawberries
2 small cans mandarin oranges

Put fruit on pizza just before serving so crust doesn't get soggy.
Any fruit can be substituted like blueberries or raspberries.

Source: Lisa Swanson

Refreshing Fruit Pizza

Refreshing Fruit Pizza
(A beautiful sight ot behold!)

Use 1/2 package (20 oz.) sugar cookie dough. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease 12 inch pizza pan. Press dough into pizza pan. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until edges begin to brown. Cool.

Spread 1 cup whipping cream (whipped) or 8 oz. Cool Whip or cheese mixture.

Cheese Mixture:
3 oz. cream cheese
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1/3 small Cool whip

Spread over cooled cookie dough crust.

Suggested fruit:
Fresh strawberries
Pineapple chunks or slices, cut in pieces
Grapes
Mandarin oranges
Kiwi fruit
Cherry pie filling
Bananas, cut last minute or put in pineapple juice until ready

Create your own fruit combination with family favorites.

Drain fruit well. Arrange fruit in circles on topping, working from the outside toward the center. Refrigerate until served. Cut in 8 pieces.

Source: Aunt Eula Mae Judd

Banana Tips

Tip #1 - Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to pick the little 'stringy things' off of it. It also gives you the stem for a good handle.

Tip #2 - Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.

Peach Cobbler

(Before it went in the oven)

PEACH COBBLER
Preheat oven to 350 - Makes 8-10 servings

BATTER
1/2 C. Butter
1 1/4 C. flour
2 T. baking powder
1/2 t. salt
1 C. sugar
1 C. milk

FILLING
4 C. sliced peaches
1/4 C. sugar
1 t. cinnamon
1 T. lemon juice

Mix together the peaches, sugar, cinnamon & lemon juice. Allow the mixture to sit while making the batter.

Put the butter in a 9x13 baking dish and put the dish in the preheating oven. While the butter is meliting, mix up the batter by combining the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar & milk.

When the butter is completely melted, remove the pan & pour the batter into the melted butter. Then carefully, spoon in the peach filling mixture evenly over the batter. Return dish to oven & bake for 45 minutes.

Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Note-I found 350 to be too hot. I did 325 for about 35-40 minutes. Until the crust was golden brown and the mixture was bubbly.

I found this recipe in a Smith's grocery store flyer and it is the best cobbler recipe that I have found!