Bottling Fruit

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I think freezing is a much easier way of preserving fruit and veges, and it doesn't use so much sugar. I poach plums and nectarines with no water and a small quantity of sugar - maybe 2 tab per kg of fruit - then freeze.

I've never bottled fruit - I have memories of my poor mother struggling in the heat in late summer bottling endless jars of Golden Queen peaches from our orchard, and then having to think up ways of using them.