Most shrub recipes call for using the whole fruit, not the scraps—I’d rather eat the fruit fresh and save the scraps for shrub, but if you do want to use the whole fruit, keep in mind that the resulting fruity mush is said to be great on ice cream.

*Yes, stone fruit pits and apple seeds do contain some nasty stuff that you don’t want to eat. However, that’s buried deep within the pits and seeds—you’ve got to break or chew them to get exposed, and then eat a ton of them to be exposed to any significant risk. Elizabeth Andress, project director at the National Center for Home Food Preservation, notes that a 150-pound man would need to aggressively chew 200 apple seeds or 20 cores to be exposed to a dangerous amount of naturally occurring amygdalin, which turns to cyanide in our digestive tracts. Just swallowing the seeds whole would further minimize the effect because the seed coat keeps the amygdalin encased. And even if you do chew or swallow a broken seed or two when eating an apple, your body is capable of detoxifying small doses of cyanide.