Royal peaches , or are they goldfish ?:-)+= (Princes Peaches)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Princes Peaches
Date:	19/07/07 (119 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: tasty

Disadvantages: more expensive than value

Princes Food Company has been in buisiness for 120 years, started in Liverpool canning fish. Princes do a range of canned fish, vegetable and fruits.

When I was a nipper I remember mum buying princess tinned fruits for Sunday tea and special treats. I expect in the 1850's she thought it was a good brand.

I was going to make a trifle the other day and bought a tin of Prices sliced peaches in syrup from Tesco' it cost me 52p for 227 g. not sure why I picked up the peaches in syrup these days if I am buying tinned fruit I usually buy one in natural juices less sugar. Princes make peaches in grape juice 72p for a 415g can. Princess sliced peaches in syrup also comes in a 420g can costing 72p. If you want peach halves Princes also do those in syrup 74p for 420g.

I used my tin of peaches to make a trifle but you can eat them on their own, or with cream, or custard hot or cold. You could make a tinned fruit salad adding tins of other favourite fruit , You could drain the tin and put the peaches in a cake tart put a sponge on top make a peach upside down sponge , there are many fruity recipes I could bore you with .

However the first thing that happens when I pour the peaches into a bowl is that the liquid pours out. The juice/syrup is a thick sticky liquid colourless; it is made of water citric acid and sugar.
It does smell like peaches; take a taste yes peachy and sweet.
The peaches plop into the bowl next they are orange slices fairly thin; they have had their furry skin removed so are smooth. I dip my fingers into the bowl pick one up to eat it, its slimy probably the effect of being in sticky juice /syrup. It smells a sweet peachy smell it tastes yes you've got it peachy and sweet. Quite nice if you like that sort of thing, think I prefer the ones in juice though, not as sweet.

The nutrient values per 100g show the peaches to be a high in sugar at 53kcal, very high in carbs at 13.0g but nil in fat and salt, with 0.7g of fibre.

Anyway I continued to make my trifle I drained the peaches. Boiled the kettle made an orange jey using part water part peach juice, I chopped up a sponge cake I had made you can use trifle sponges or Swiss roll if you have none of my cake available. (If adding sherry I would have soaked thee sponge in a little) I put the sponge pieces into a bowl added the peach slices pored on the jelly mix, When the jelly was set I opened a tin of custard (yes I cheated could have made my own custard) I pored this on top of the trifle base The whipped some double cream put it on top of custard and decorated the trifle with some sugar coloured sprinkles. I served this as a pudding when my gson came to visit.

I think that in future I will buy the peaches in a natural juice and stick to cheaper tinned peaches for trifles but if I am just going to serve peaches and cream shall perhaps use the Princess brand as the peaches were nice.

To tease someone stand next to the goldfish bowl, half curl your fingers round the peach slice and eat it yumm yumm tasty. Looks a little like you are eating the goldfish 

Summary: Tinned peaches