When my Mother was still alive, we canned together every fall & I LOVED it! I'd leave my kids with DH & off I'd go to Mom & Dad's for a week or so. We canned stewed tomatoes, made something she called "chow chow" out of green tomatoes, made bread & butter pickles, made grape jam, made apple butter, made apple sauce, made pickled watermelon rind, made pickled corn, (sometimes) made mincemeat & also made sour kraut. It was lots of work but I loved doing it with her & really miss it now.