3 c. sugar
4 c. water

Place water and sugar in 2 quart saucepan. Boil rapidly for 5 minutes. Set aside. Prepare fruit and place in clean sterile jars. Pour hot syrup over fruit until covered; seal and water bath according to the kind of fruit you have. Usually 25 minutes for most fruits in pints.

Prepare the syrup in this small quantity and it is not when fruit is ready and you don't waste sugar. Mix only as much as you will use. You may also use this for freezing fruit. Use plastic freezer boxes for fruit and cover with cooled syrup and freeze.