Peeling & Slicing Peaches For Peach Pie

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Karen for Expert Village now we are going to peel and slice our peaches. First I'm going to put a tablespoon of lemon juice into the bowl that we are going to be slicing our peaches into so that our peaches won't brown while we are working with them. You can use fresh lemon juice or this is just a bottle lemon juice 1 tablespoon there. Now let me show you how easy these peel. You see how the skin just come right off you just grab the little corner of that criss cross that we put on the bottom and peel the skin right off. Okay I like to take out a baggy and just put it there and I'll throw all my skins right there on that baggy and then just throw them away when I'm done. Okay and we would peel all of our peaches like that. Now you can slice your peaches into different ways you can cut the whole peach in half like this. They are a little slippery once they are peeled and then pull it apart, in half and take your knife and slice like this or just pull that pit right out and slice like this. Okay and put that right into our lemon juice. Or you can right over your bowl you can just slice to the pit and drop those peaches, peach slices right into the bowl as you go. So it is your choice I sort of like doing it like this so I peel, peel my peach and the peel should just come right off. I give you another view of that, you just grab the corner and you just the peel just pulls right off with the blanching. If anything doesn't come off you just cut it off and then and then you just slice right down to the pit about a 1/4 inch to a 1/2 inch slices. Occasionally you want to stop and toss your peaches with the lemon juice just to coat them and that keeps them from turning brown."