I quit canning when I went back to work the last time. I remember when I first went back to work after my oldest was in school, mercy, that would be 33 years ago, I even canned beef, chicken and pork. But then I grew up on the farm and that was just the way we lived.
I hated canning corn. It was so hot and the juice would squirt out when you cut the kernals off the cob and you'd get so sticky. There were flies and it was icky having to sit there as a preteen with Mother and Grandma and do women's work. I'd rather have been out in the field driving tractor for baling. Oh yah, I did that too.
There was a bank customer whose house had burned down. Their church friends were helping them build a new home. She was telling me she had this huge garden and how they preserved everything they could get their hands on to save money to use on the house as the insurance didn't pay what they expected. So I tell her she can have my canning tools and jars. I give her my big pressure canner, three different size waterbath canners, the tongs, cherry pitter, apple peeler, funnel, and everything I had having to do with canning. I gave her boxes of different size jars and rings. OHHHHH she was so thrilled and promised to bring me things from her garden. So here I was all excited about having a few fresh vegetables and maybe even a jar or two of peaches or jam. Guess what I get, ===== 2 zuchinis!! That was all. 2. She never spoke to me again either. She would go out of her way to work with different people at the bank.
Just a few weeks ago I made up a batch of 2 1/2 quarts of salsa. And last week I put up 16 pints of wild black raspberry jam. I have been giving it away so my picture will look like I am lieing. I love to do strawberry and raspberry freezer jam. Oh and I loved canning black cherries. I didn't even pit them. I would put 2 cups of syrup in a quart jar and then fill the jar with cherries. I put that in black cherry jello. We always had to remind everybody to watch out for the pits. But I think they tasted better that way.