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Better Homes and Gardens Home Canning and Freezing (Better Homes and Gardens Books)

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This book is great for both the beginning and the advanced home canner. The step by step instructions walk you through the basic procedures if you're a novice, and have wonderful recipes to use with your canned foods if you're an expert. The book begins with an overview of equipment and tells the beginner what to buy and how to use it, then goes right into food prep and the canning process. Highly recommend this book. Although long out of print, you can get it used here through Amazon and it's WELL WORTH the money. Would make a nice gift if included with a waterbath canner and some jars!

This little hard bound book has a good '101" type of presentation, covering pretty much all the bases on canning and freezing. Good pictures illustrating the procedures, good tables for finding the data on each food type to process, and recipes using the food once preserved gave the reader a quick reference when putting together their day of preserving. It isn't too long to get lost in either. On the freezing section it was a bit out of date on containers as it was issued in 1973. It doesn't have any of the more recent types of plastic containers available in the grocery store, but the data on how to go about freezing would work in any kind of container suitable for freezing. I am glad I bought it. I have a number of other preservation books, and this one came in handy on several projects.
DD