I make a sausage and marinated sweet pepper dish that is a wonderful winter dish served over rice with my marinated sweet pepper. I also will use pie filling in an upside down "pancake" casserole. Layer pie filling in the bottom of a casserole, whip up some pancake mix, pour it over the pie filling, bake, voila...upside down "pancake" casserole! I've also assembled it the night before and then thrown it in the oven the next morning. Actually, this has become the main way I've used up pie filling...seems to go faster than actual pie! lol I use marmalades for bastes and jams in my morning oatmeal. I mix my canned fruit in with plain yogurt and pickles in salad!

Haven't made the Ball one, only Shirley's but a lot of people who make this end up treating it more like a "concentrate", using it with club soda, etc. because they do tend to the sweet side. You can reduce the sugar if you make it again. For measuring try the water displacement method. It's more accurate for anything chunky. So let's say you want 2 cups of strawberries. You take a quart measure and pour in 2 cups of water. Then you add berries until the level reaches the 4-cup mark. Result: 2 cups of water + 2 cups of berries = 1 quart. Carol

The watermelon is not safe to use for this. Melons are not high acid like other fruits and berries.

I made this a few days ago and it is wonderful. It took a lot of lemons - wished I had made it when lemons were plentiful. I candied the lemon peels also; they are still drying in my oven. I will probably pressure seal them today and put them in the fridge. I had never made this concentrate before and found that using 1/3 concentrate to 2/3 liquids works spendidly and stretches my concentrate further.