Preserving Nature's Bounty

By Frances Bissell

Book Overview

Food preservation has never been simpler This illustrated guide to canning and preserving covers everything from selecting and using equipment to choosing suitable fruits and vegetables, preparing the jars, and bath processing. Foolproof recipes for a vast assortment of delicious jellies, jams, chutneys, marmalades, cucumber and dill pickles, and much more are included. And with these streamlined processes and time-saving tips, making smaller batches of fruit butters and cheeses, syrups, pickles, and salsa is fast and easy. Tempting recipes include Red Currant, Cider & Pepper Jelly; Pineapple & Roasted Yellow Pepper Salsa; Passion-Fruit Vinegar; Spiced Pickle Spears; Tamarillo Jam; and Blackberry Vodka. Spice up the holidays with Fig & Apple Mincemeat, Cranberry & Cinnamon Jelly, and old-fashioned Christmas Jam. A Selection of the Good Cook Book Club.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402727313
• ISBN13: 9781402727313
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Well Organized and Wonderfully Creative

This isn't your grandma's canning! Frances Bissell offers an extensive array of wonderful recipes for preserving produce at its peak of flavor and quality. The small batch recipes, perfect for the time-pressed modern cook, are perfectly organized to ease of use: rather than the standard organization of all jams together, all salsas together, all marmalades together, and so on, Bissell puts all apple recipes in one section, all mango recipes in another, etc. This way, someone with a lot of apples or mangoes or whatever can easily find something great to make with them rather than leafing through page-by-page looking for recipes. Bissell's canning instructions and equipment list are clear and well-written, and likely to be understood by even a novice. And the recipes? From limoncello (which I'm making just as soon as I can - summer's coming, after all!) to peach melba jam to pickled onions, there's a wonderful selection and something for every taste and preference. Several recipes intended for making special gifts are also included, mincemeat and special jams, all of which sound lovely and just the thing for keeping a bit of the growing season with us as the weather turns and the days shorten. As a canning enthusiast and hobbyist [...] I am pleased to recommend this book to all, newbies and experienced alike.