Cooking: Food Preservation

These 400 innovative and enticing recipes include everything from salsas and savory sauces to pickling, chutneys, relishes and of course, jams, jellies, and fruit spreads. Includes directions on safe canning and preserving methods plus lists of required equipment and utensils. Specific instructions for first-timers and handy tips for the experienced.

Steer clear of food storage disaster! Empower yourself with the insider info it takes to store healthy food, save money, and make delicious meals. Use these savvy tricks to avoid accidents waiting to happen to your supply. Keep produce, whole grains, and even meat and dairy for months--or years! Become a food storage expert and never go hungry again!

Yes, you CAN! More and more people have discovered what grandma always knew: canning and preserving supplies you with wholesome, tasty treats year round. Provides all the practical, hold-your-hand basics along with plenty of step-by-step photos.

The recipes in this book allow you to put up a few jars quickly and easily of whatever is fresh and available, with a minimum of time and fuss. Includes recipes for jams, jellies and marmalades as well as butters, pickles, sauces, salsas, chutneys, curds, conserves, relishes, dips, pestos, specialty vinegars and oils and sweet low-sugar spreads. Recipes for microwave and freezer jams, and recipes kids will enjoy.

With the easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions here, anyone can have fun, save money, and create delicious meals by dehydrating food. Learn the basic methods--sun drying, oven drying, net bag, and commercial food dehydrators--before moving on to drying herbs for tea, making your own tasty (and healthier) jerky, and so much more. Also included is a section on the nutritional benefits of drying food. With 164 recipes ranging from breads to desserts, soups to pies, and cereals to entrees, Dehydrating Food is a book for anyone who is interested in learning how to save money and create delicious meals by drying their own food.