Try This Incredible and Easy Amish Peach Custard Dessert

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This is one of these refreshing summer desserts that I'm always good at "discovering" when I visit an Amish farmhouse. This is one I found at an Amish home once.  Delicious, refreshing dessert.

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• 📜 The Amish and Peaches
• ✔️ Amish Tips on Picking Peaches
• 🥄 Step-by-Step Peach Custard Dessert
• 🍑 Additional Amish Recipes Using Peaches
• 🖨️ Full Recipe

My parents, usually once a year, order in some peaches from South Carolina where the crop seems especially juicy and sweet.  Ohio isn't a huge peach state, but I sure like peaches. 

📜 The Amish and Peaches

While strawberries and apples probably enjoy greater currency among the Amish, peaches are close behind. Peaches just have a more narrow growing season and conditions have to be just right. But here are some favorite uses among Amish cooks for peaches:

• home-canning
• coffeecakes
• pies
• jams
• sliced and eat as a refreshing snack

✔️ Amish Tips on Picking Peaches

There are many varieties of peaches, and except for a few, most varieties are not easy to tell apart.

• The reddish "bloom" on the peach is not a sure sign the peach has been picked at its prime. Instead, look at the undercolor, which should be a deep yellow or creamy white; green indicates immaturity.
• Peaches should be firm to the touch and never hard. Peaches that are hard and green are immature and will never ripen properly. A mature peach will yield to gentle hand pressure.
• Never squeeze a peach; it will easily bruise.
• Avoid over-ripe, bruised, or wrinkled peaches. They will quickly decay.

Storage

• The best way to ripen peaches is to place them in a single layer in a loosely closed paper bag or ripening dish at room temperature for a day or two days. Never "stack" peaches as the bottom ones will bruise.
• Store ripe peaches in the refrigerator for up to a week.
• When ready to eat, leave the peach out of the refrigerator for about an hour. Allowing the peach to come to room temperature enhances the flavor.
• Rinse peaches just before eating with cool, running water.
• If your recipe calls for skinned peaches, dip in boiling water for 30–60 seconds, plunge into cold water and slip off the skins. Use immediately or toss with citrus juice or a commercial ascorbic acid mixture to prevent darkening. Place in a covered bowl in the refrigerator until ready for use.

🥄 Step-by-Step Peach Custard Dessert

I decided to make this dessert the other night and I was not disappointed. I mean, it didn't "set" maybe quite like I had envisioned, but it was still good - well, delicious, in fact. The above photo is a version of this that I saw in an Amish home, so it's the real deal. The photos below are from my home, not the real deal! But it was close!

I'm impatient. So the hardest part of this recipe was cutting the peaches "fine." I don't have the patience to dice them up, so I just sort of chunked them and that worked fine.

Very simple recipe with just some milk, eggs, sugar, and a couple of other items. Very easy. I found myself wishing I had added a little brown sugar. Maybe even some molasses, but that would have made it much darker in color.

The instructions say to bake at 325 for an hour or until "almost set." That is the part that tripped me up. I ended up going for 90 minutes and it still was not quite "almost set", but then I let it cool on the counter for awhile and then stuck it into the fridge and an hour or so later, it was pretty firm and definitely delicious!

I put some in a bowl and doused it with whipped topping and it was even better!

🍑 Additional Amish Recipes Using Peaches

THE AMISH COOKS Amish Summer Peach Delight

A sweet summer favorite from Gloria and her family!

HOMEMADE PEACH STRUDEL

Check out this classic from 2013, this is an old recipe from the Amish Cook archives.

PEACH UPSIDE DOWN CAKE

This is a delicious peach recipe made and photographed by a talented young Mennonite photographer in Pennsylvania.

MENNONITE PEACH BREAD

This is a super recipe that comes to us from an Amish-Mennonite woman in Montezuma, Georgia, where peaches are king.

EASY PEACH DUMP CAKE

Dump cakes are popular among the Amish and why the heck not?   They are easy, delicious, and feed a crowd.... why not pack one with sweet peaches!

🖨️ Full Recipe