bucolic3401 said:
My father referred to these as “drip off the elbow peaches”. Quite appropriate too.
The best white peach of all..
Wiggins:
Lovely old fashioned white fleshed peach, juicy and sweet, good quality, doesn’t have the colour of some modern varieties, but the flavour is all there.
Old Newspaper Article on “Peach Cyder”
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (
NSW : 1803 – 1842)
Sunday 3 March 1805, Pages 2 and 3
“We are happy to learn that some successful experiments have been this year made in expressing cyder from the peach, in such quantities as to promise real advantage.
Several of the settlers at Kissing Point have devoted much attention to the praise-worthy object; one of whom informs us, that he has already put up about 200 gallons; which with a few months fermentation, he doubts not will be found equal to the apple-cyder in strength, and not inferior to the taste.
To effect this, however, his labour has been prodigious, owing to the mode in which, for want of a press, he was obliged to extract the juice. To this end he had recourse to every inventive faculty; and first, to separate the fruit from the kernel, hewed the but of a tree out in shape of a mortar, wherein he readily accomplished this part of the task; then smoothing off the flat side of another tree, which he designed using as a part of the press, prepared a substantial board as its opposite ; and against this raising the best purchase he could, a tolerable portion of the juice was extracted, which ran into vessels set purposely to receive it.
He had the last year commenced the operation, but merely by way of experiment, and upon a very small scale ; the produce of which, bottled off, attained to so much excellence in the course of six or seven months, as to determine him to extend his plan.
Were similar attempts general, the gardener would no doubt find the profits of the sale an ample reward for his labour, and the prodigious abundance of fruit now wasted be converted into a pleasant beverage.”
