Even though Fall is just around the corner, Summer isn’t over just yet and neither is the summer dishes! Here is one of my family’s personal favorites, Fruit Cocktail!
Ingredients
2 Cups of Water
1 1/4 Cups of Sugar
4 Cups of Peaches (Diced)
3 Cups of Pears (Diced)
2 Cups of Apples (Diced)
2 Cups of Green Grapes
1 Cup of Maraschino Cherries
Directions
Prepare bubble bath canner and begin to heat on the stove but be sure that the canning water is (NOT) at a rolling boil or else that could cause your jars to break. It’s always a good rule of thumb for your canner water to be as hot as your fruit mixture inside the jar is.
In a seperate kettle, combine water and sugar, stir and bring to a boil.
After the water begins to boil, add all of your fruit except for the cherries inside the kettle and boil for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes is up, remove the fruit cocktail and sugar water mixture from the heat and add the Marachino Cherries.
Place your lids into a small kettle about halfway full of water on the stove and heat the lids on low. This helps to make sure that the lids are warm once they make contact with the jars and helps them to seal.
Ladle into jars and wipe the rims with a damp paper towel. Place lids and rings on the jars and secure rings finger tight.
Place into bubble bath canner and boil for 20 minutes.
Serve and enjoy!
Gracie Latrelle 
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