How to Bottle Fruit without Sugar FOOD FACTS Home-Grown Fruit is extra precious this year! Bottle all you can spare, for use later The special allowance of sugar for preserves means that you'll want to make as much jam as your fruit and sugar will allow. Any fruit you can get in addition to this—from your own or a friend's garden—can be bottled for later use, when no fresh fruit is available. BOTTLING OUTFITS Three kinds of jars are available for bottling: (1) Screw-band vacuum jar, with rubber ring, glass lid, and screw-band; (2) Spring-clip vacuum jar, with rubber ring, metal lid and spring clip; (3) "Snap closures" consisting of a rubber ring, metal lid and spring clip, used with ordinary jam jars.