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How many of you make homemade preserves? Every year I help my daughter Shelly with her home canning projects and she often makes fruit preserves and cans them for the wintertime. A few weeks ago we got this guest recipe in our email and was …
Every year we plant a backyard garden and one of the things that we grow in it happens to be zucchinis. For some reason, zucchini grows extremely well around here! Last summer I planted only 3 plants and it yielded 22 large zucchinis! One of …
I’ve been doing home preserving or some form of home canning for the past 25+ years. I love to get into my kitchen and make up a few batches of homemade jam, jellies, conserves, chutney, soft spreads and more. These little treasures are always welcomed at my table, especially during the winter season when freshly made foods dwindle quickly.
Ball is the company that I always turn to when it comes to preserving my family’s food. I love how easy their recipes are to follow and I love all of their get started quickly guides that you can find out there on the internet. If your new to home preserving or just need to freshen up on your skills, you definitely need the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving in your collection.
Title: Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving
ISBN: 978-0-7788-0511-3
Publisher: Robert Rose
Pages: 496
Cover Price: $34.95 USA
Examples of Recipes:
Cranapple Butter
Habanero Gold
Oranges in Cointreau
Blackberries in Frambroise
Honey Spiced Peaches
Curried Fruit Compote
Strawberry Lemon Concentrate
Pickled Three Bean Salad
Apple Wedges in Cinnamon Red Hot Syrup
+ More!
Last year I made over 250 jars of canned fruits, jellies, jams and preserves! Yup, over 250 jars of edible goodies stocked my pantry well this past Fall and Winter season. Almost all of the recipes that I used were recipes from Ball or Ball recipes that had slight changes made to them.
This book features user-friendly recipes that will appeal to novice & experienced canners alike and it includes an extensive glossary that identifies from ingredients to canning equipment to instructions. I really love that this book includes The Home Canning Problem Solver, which provides answers to virtually every question & problem regarding home canning and preserving.
There are 7 comprehensive chapters including: getting started, soft spreads, fabulous fruits, salsa, relish, chutney, condiments, perfect pickles, tomatoes and pressure canning. If you’re doing any type of home canning or preserving, this is definitely one of those “MUST-HAVE” books for your collection.
You can find this title and many other fine cookbooks and foodie books by shopping at Robert Rose online.
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Disclaimer: Shelly H. has personally reviewed the product listed above. Shelly has not received any monetary compensation for her review. Shelly did receive a free product to try out so she could evaluate and use it for her review. Her thoughts & opinions in this review are unbiased & honest and your opinions may differ. Thanks!
For the past 25+ years I’ve been doing home canning. Luckily for me…I’ve had 2 great teachers in my life…my grandmother and my father-in-law who both taught me the basics & then I took that knowledge and expanded it by attending some local classes and …
I was first introduced to food preservation 35 years ago by my grandmother. That very first year I remember sitting on a chair in her kitchen and watching her can hundreds of different jars of food. On top of canning, she was really big into …
How many of you do home canning? How many of you would like to learn or would like to improve upon your canning skills? If so, I’ve got some great news for you, so please keep on reading!
I’ve been canning all kinds of things for the past 25 years and love it! While I am no expert on canning, I do know how to comfortably process about a dozen different items.
Preserving your food by canning is a great way to preserve your goodies from your garden and to have food on-hand throughout the late fall, winter and early spring seasons. While home canning can sound scary and hard…it really isn’t once you know the basics.
For those of you who want to learn or improve upon your skills…there is an upcoming webcast that I want to tell you about.
On Saturday August 1st, Jarden Home Brands will host this year’s fifth annual Can-It-Forward Day, broadcast live online at FreshPreserving.com from 11AM – 4PM EST from the new state-of-the-art Jarden Home Brands headquarters in Fishers, Indiana.
This event celebrates the joys of fresh preserving, Can-It-Forward Day encourages gardeners & food enthusiasts across the country to celebrate what “Made From Here” means to them by fresh preserving their favorite local ingredients in peak season. The webcast will have an integrated chat function where consumers can submit their home canning questions to be answered in real time. New this year, there will also be an exciting celebrity mason jar auction unveiled during the webcast!
I hope you can join this super fun and informative webcast on August 1st, 2015. In addition, I will be sharing with you a review I am working on in a few weeks and we will be hosting a giveaway too! Stay tuned for that!
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