Fruit trees are somewhat ubiquitous in suburban America.  Chances are, in any given neighborhood, someone is bound to have a fruit tree or two.  Unfortunately what is equally as ubiquitous is letting all the fruit from these home fruit trees fall off the tree and rot.  This is a shame.

At some point in the not too distant past, everyone seemed to have decided that canning was a strangely laborious process that was not worth the effort.  I’m puzzled by this.  Compared to making a meringue, or even roasting a chicken, I think that canning comes out as something fairly easy, and it becomes especially easy when we’re talking about fruit.

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