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August 27th, 2008 edition of The Daily Sauce: Food and Wine. Visit Our Food and Wine Archive.

White Peaches

Big, fat, juicy yellow peaches are good, but we always reach for white peaches, especially the demure and delicious Saturn peach (aka doughnut peach). Bite into a perfectly ripe white peach, and you’ll taste pure aromatic, floral sweetness. Compliments of Mother Earth News, here are 10 reasons to eat a donut peach.

They taste better than other peaches; they’re sweeter, with almond overtones.

They’re lower in acid than other peaches.

Saturn pits don’t cling to the flesh, making them easy to pop out with your thumb.

A doughnut peach’s thin skin has little or no fuzz, so no peeling necessary.

Their small size makes them easy to eat out of hand.

The trees they grow on are frost-hardy, highly pest- and disease-resistant and are easy to grow in most areas.

Saturn peach trees produce an abundant harvest, up to twice as many peaches as other varieties.

Doughnut trees bloom earlier in the spring than other varieties, putting on a spectacular show of pink blossoms.

Most of the nursery stock is grafted to dwarf roots, making easy work of pruning and harvesting.

By planting a rarer variety of peach, you help preserve biodiversity and maintain diverse seed stocks for generations to come.

Sauce pick: Saturn white peaches
Price: Varies
Where to get it: We got ours from Kamp’s Orchard at the Clayton Farmers’ Market, Saturdays through Oct. 25 – 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 8282 Forsyth Blvd., Clayton
Info: www.claytonfarmersmarket.com

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