{"id":4220,"date":"2009-08-21T04:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2009-08-21T09:40:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T13:40:45","slug":"peachy-keen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?p=4220","title":{"rendered":"Peachy Keen"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jan

Jan likes to think about what she's going to do with orchard-fresh peaches.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I can\u2019t stop eating peaches!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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These gorgeous fruits symbolize the color of this time of year. In August everything around us takes on a golden hue. The light seems deeper and more yellow. Black-eyed susans, sunflowers, and goldenrod fill the fields.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Lush yellow peaches give us a literal taste of that glow. It\u2019s not just their color that puts summer\u2019s gold into our mouths. Their juice and their texture–not soft but not hard, just yielding–help our teeth sink into the season.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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A couple of years ago a frost hit just as peach blossoms came out. It ruined the peach crop in local orchards. I remember feeling as though summer hadn\u2019t really taken place that year. (I\u2019m sure our peach growers felt this lack even more strongly!) Since then I\u2019ve never been able to take peaches for granted. They are a special summer gift.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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We are lucky enough to have several peach orchards in Franklin County, Massachusetts. I bought the peaches for this recipe at Clarkdale Fruit Farms<\/a>\u00a0in South Deerfield, where Tom and Becky Clark were proudly displaying photos of their sojourn at Woodstock<\/a>40 years ago. The Clarks are wonderful orchardists–caring about their community and full of information about their fruit.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Of course,\u00a0mostly I just eat the peaches (messy but SO GOOD).\u00a0Company always provides an excuse to bake, however, so here is a simple\u00a0cake that gently and richly enrobes the peaches.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Summer\u00a0Peach Pound Cake<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I gave some of this cake to a friend, Helen-Marie Goff. She reported that her children were disappointed that the cake had no frosting \u2026 up until the moment they\u00a0took a bite of\u00a0the buttery mixture! It is a lovely cake–rich, sweet, and very fruity.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Ingredients:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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1 cup (2 sticks) sweet butter, at room temperature
\n2 cups sugar
\n4 eggs
\n1 teaspoon vanilla
\n1 teaspoon baking powder
\n1\/2 teaspoon salt
\n3 cups flour
\n2 cups chopped fresh peaches<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Instructions:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt pan.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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In a mixer, cream the butter until smooth. Add the sugar, and beat until smooth. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, followed by the vanilla. Beat in the baking powder and salt.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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On a low speed blend in the flour until it is incorporated. With a rubber spatula, gently fold the fruit into the batter. Transfer the batter to the prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Set the pan on a wire rack to cool for about 10 minutes. Then turn the cake out onto the rack and let it cool completely. Serves 10 to 12.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0 I can\u2019t stop eating peaches! \u00a0 These gorgeous fruits symbolize the color of this time of year. In August everything around us takes on a golden hue. The light seems deeper and more yellow. Black-eyed susans, sunflowers, and goldenrod fill the fields. \u00a0 Lush yellow peaches give us a literal taste of that glow. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,662,713],"tags":[715,716,717,714,718,1748],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4220"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4228,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions\/4228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}