Peach Butter

just like apple butter only so much better! I had a bunch of extra peaches from my food co-op order. (I got some extra ones for helping on distribution day in addition to my order) so I needed some way to use them. Enter Peach butter, tart sweet and delicious on toast or anything.

12ish peaches
1/4 c honey
1/4 c lemon juice
1 tsp ginger

cut the peaches in half and remove the pits. Put them in a saucepan with about 1/2 c water (just enough to keep them from burning to the bottom while they juice) and the honey and lemon. Cover and cook over medium heat stirring occasionally until they are a soft sauce-like mush - about 20 minutes. Remove from the heat and put them through the Foley food mill to remove skins, etc. Put the sauce in the crokpot and cook UNcovered on high for about 5 hours or until there is no water seeping from around the edge when you put a dab of it on a plate. In the last 30 min add the ginger. Remove the butter from the crockpot and put in a jar and in the fridge or can it in a boiling water bath canner for 5 min (10 min for folks at 3,000-6,000ft elevation)

Note if you don't have a food mill first off I'd go buy one or pick one up at a yard sale like me but if you really don't have one you could blanche the peaches in boiling water for about 1 minute and then remove the skins, half and pit them and then put them in the pot to cook into mush.