We used to go to the Okanagan (south-central BC) and bring home cases of lovely ripe peaches which would peel as you say, SarahD. And they were beautiful in their jars!. However now I buy them locally and of course they've been picked green. Once ripe, they're still good but just not as good as before and harder to peel. I wash each peach carefully under running water, cut them as necessary and bottle them with their skins on. It works well and depending on what I'm doing with them, I just pick the peels off when I open the jar. Nobody can tell any flavour difference and it cuts down on the prep time

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