Christiana Campbell's Peach Preserves

Product Description

Made with simple, all-natural ingredients that would have been available in colonial-era Williamsburg, these delicious Christiana Campbell's Peach Preserves from Colonial Williamsburg bring an authentic historical touch to your table. Our peach preserves are made from fresh southern summer peaches and are one of our customers' favorite fruit spreads. Enjoy them on toast at breakfast or with scones at tea time, on vanilla ice cream, or use them to make a glaze for pork chops. Our peach spread also makes a great addition to a Colonial Williamsburg gift basket for friends.

Features

• Jar of peach preserves
• No artificial preservatives, colorings, or flavorings
• 10 1/2 oz.
• Made in USA - just around the corner in Smithfield, Virginia
• A Colonial Williamsburg exclusive!
• Ingredients: Peaches, cane sugar, corn syrup, citric acid and pectin

Inspiration

With refrigeration and canning yet unknown, the colonial inhabitants of Williamsburg depended on other techniques to keep their food supplies edible and to provide variety in the diet throughout the year, especially during the winter months. Food preservation methods used during the colonial period included drying, salting, pickling, and jellying.

Beginning around 1755, Christiana Campbell owned and operated one of Williamsburg's most successful taverns for nearly 30 years. She provided room and board to travelers and townspeople, often hosting government officials in town on business. When the General Assembly was in session, Campbell hosted members of the House of Burgesses, including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. George Washington once noted in his diary that he had dined at Christiana Campbell's tavern 10 times in two months. Today the revitalized tavern is one of Colonial Williamsburg's premier historic attractions.