Preserving Food Books: The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest

by Sharon
(SimplyCanning.com)

Learn about preserving food through canning, dehydrating, cold storage and freezing.

This is another great book for basic canning information. It includes sections on canning safety, pressure canning techniques, waterbath canning and recipes.

The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest By Carol W. Costenbader / STOREY PUBLISHING

The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest

Chapters include:

Choosing Ingredients

- Stresses the importance of fresh food. Compares purchasing foods locally at farms or farmers markets vs supermarket chains. Salts, spices and herbs, sweeteners and artificial sweeteners.

Canning

Safety information, general principles of canning, equipment and jar preparation, raw pack vs hot pack, methods, processing and storage. Included here are all canning recipes for fruits and vegetables.

Drying

This chapter discusses dehydrating food methods and storage. What dries well with a dehydrator and what can be air dried. Storage times and methods. Recipes using dried foods are included.

Freezing

Here freezing is discussed and many recipes are shared. Soups, casseroles, baked beans, tomato pudding and more.

Jams and Jellies

Learn about pectin, what it is and what it does. Making your own pectin, sweeteners, no sugar recipes, storage and recipes.

Pickles, Relishes and Chutneys

Learn what ingredients can be used safely when pickling. Recipes from pickled fruits, relishes, spicy and sweet pickles.

Vinegars and Seasonings

Types of vinegars and other ingredients.

Cold Storage

How to store your foods in a root cellar or other equivalent area. Learn what the requirements are as far as temperature and what foods will store well with this method.

Gifts of Preserved Foods

Fun ideas on how to decorate jars, containers to use and dry mixes.

Appendixes added add information on building an electric food dehydrator and tables with measurement equivalents and conversions.

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