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More and more people are beginning to can and preserve, whether for health benefits or to save money. Complete with step-by-step instructions, recipes, and tips, this book is a must for beginning and experienced canners alike. With this book you will learn to:
Preserve fresh foods by drying, freezing, canning, and pickling
Find and use the tools needed to can and preserve foods at home
Take safety precautions to prevent food contamination
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seller was great , prompt and accurate, and the book is all i hoped it to be
Rating: 5 / 5
I have been canning for almost 6 years and order books from Amazon all the time. This will be one of my favorites. The To-Die-For Hot Fudge Sauce is the best I have ever made. My family Loves it. This is a must buy for everyone who does home canning home
Rating: 5 / 5
I am new to canning and purchased this book along with Canning and Preserving For Dummies and I would definitely recommend the second as opposed to this one. The Dummies book is much more comprehensive and more clearly written when it comes to both the recipes and explaining the canning process. The recipes in this book are very poorly written. When I read the Dummies book they continually expressed the importance of not altering recipes in any way because it can change the PH of the food. When you change the PH it may change the process in which the food needs to be canned (water bath or pressure). But the recipes in this book are not clear as to the ingredients or the method of canning. First, they use inconsistent language throughout the book. They use the terms water-bath canning, hot-water bath and boiling-water canning in the recipes. They don’t explain how these are different (in fact, I believe they’re all the same thing?) but it’s definitely confusing for a new canner like myself. It would be much clearer if they were consistent in using the same wording throughout. Second, for example, in the recipes for various mustards they use the terms mustard, yellow mustard, mustard seed, dark mustard seed, yellow mustard powder, mustard powder and mustard greens. How is mustard different than yellow mustard? How about mustard powder and yellow mustard powder? Now I don’t know much about making mustard… I’ve never done it before so I may be wrong in assuming these are similar or the same items. But I probably won’t venture into mustard making with recipes like these.
If you’re new to canning and want to know all the information about it to keep you and your family safe from botulism and unsafe food I would recommend the Dummies book instead. If you’re not new to it and have more experience this book may be interesting to you as it does contain many interesting and enticing recipes.
Rating: 3 / 5
Last year I decided I wanted to learn how to can. I knew nothing about it, so I researched books and came up with this one. After I got the book I started reading, it goes step by step how to can and hints to make it easier. When I started canning by first bunch I was scared but with this book I shouldn’t have been. It went very smooth and easy I successfully canned quite a bit and had fun doing. There are a lot of reciepes in here and I am having fun trying everyone out. So for the experienced canner there is a lot of good receipes and hints for you.
Rating: 5 / 5
A lot of times when you pick up a canning book it seems to have all the same, worn out recipes. This one is completely different! I am so inspired to go into my kitchen and start making gifts for friends, let alone canned goods for my family.
Sure there are a few takes on the classics (like bread and butter pickles) but then you find recipes like:
- Chrysanthemum soup (and other edible petal recipes)
- caramelized red onion relish
- Asian vinaigrette
- Bourbon mustard
- Watermelon pickles
and even homemade salami! There’s so much more that this list hardly does the book justice.
For people who want to know what’s truly IN their food, and who want to save money by buying in bulk this book is an incredibly useful resource. I had gone looking for something that could teach me what my grandmother knew, but also give me safe guidelines and great inspiration — this book does all three!
I’ve already made many blends and find the directions easy to follow and the results very successful.
Rating: 5 / 5