National Peach Pie Day

Who doesn’t love pie? National Peach Pie Day is a delectable treat for the tastebuds. If you can find a good peach for consumption you’re doing well. Oftentimes it gets difficult to find a good soft and juicy peach. Many of the peaches you get at the grocery store are hard. This is due to being picked prematurely. Here’s a helpful hint: Hope isn’t all lost if you find hard and tasteless peaches at the grocer. In our home, we simply place the peaches in a large paper bag, close it over, and place it on top of the refrigerator for 2-3 days. Works like a charm.

Here are some interesting facts about peaches:

• Peaches absorb the most pesticides next to apples and some remain even after cooking.
• Botanically speaking, peaches are closely related to plums.
• Peaches help to get rid of a bad mood. People in Hungary refer to them as the “Fruit of Tranquility”
• There are some varieties of peaches that are flat.
• In China, the peach is a symbol of good luck, prosperity, and longevity.
• China grows the most peaches in the world. The second place belongs to Italy.
• The first orchard in North America was in Florida.
• If you suffer from acid indigestion then a peach is the fruit for you.
• Peaches came to the new world with Christopher Columbus.
• One peach contains more than half of the daily allowance of Vitamin C which is for an adult.
• There are two types of peaches; clingstone and freestone.

There’s a great peach pie recipe that I use right here. Looking for the easiest pie crust in the world? It is the only one that I have used for 20 plus years and you will find the link in the recipe below.

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