Home-Canned Pears

preserving fall in a jar

I've many memories of store-bought canned fruit as a kid. Why is it the can always showed so many cherries on the label of the fruit cocktail, yet you were lucky to pluck one from the can itself?

Those days are far behind me now. The only canned fruit I've bought regularly are jarred peaches in light syrup imported from Italy, and sold at Caputo's in Bro…