Easiest way to turn them into something without all the peeling and seed removal? Make peach syrup.

Cut out bad spots and boil them whole with a small amount of water or apple juice till soft and mushy paste. Just enough water/juice to keep them from sticking and scorching.

Then strain out all the seeds and most of the peel and make peach jam by adding some of the meat to the juice or peach syrup out of the drainings. A couple layers of cheescloth works good. You'll want to add extra sugar to taste before jaring to offset any bitterness the seeds might have imparted.

Something an old neighbor lady taught me that she does with all her really junky peach crop.

Dave

So I assume you let them get reasonably ripe first?

I also have one of those steam juice extractors, which would make it fairly easy to get out the juice. Then I could pick out the seeds, run the skins/remaining flesh through a food strainer.

Yes to all that. :) I've never worked all that much with the steam juicer. It just irritates me most of the time and I do hear the wife mumbling at it while she is using it. Which ever works best for you.

Dave

Just reporting in. I sorted them out by size, cut and dried the larger ones in half, using the dehydrator. They're not too bad.

For the small ones, I juiced them with a steam juicer, then boiled the result down by half and canned the concentrated juice, I got 4 quarts. I'll use that in gravies and stews.

These were white peaches, and to be honest, I dunno why I planted that tree. Compared to the yellow varieties, these things are so tasteless........