Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving [Hardcover]

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 9, 2008

Practical, easy-to-follow guide contains virtually everything consumers need to know about home canning: how to select, prepare, and can fruits, vegetables, poultry, red meats and sea foods; how to preserve fruit spreads, fermented foods, and pickled vegetables; how to prepare foods for special diets, and much more.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 172 pages
• Publisher: www.bnpublishing.net (October 9, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1607960230
• ISBN-13: 978-1607960232
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #848,471 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY THE KINDLE VERSION!!!!!, March 21, 2011

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Heidi J. W. Dunn (IRWIN, PA, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving (2009 Revision) (Paperback)

Do not buy the Kindle version of this book! There is a problem with the text in the Kindle version that makes it impossible to determine the correct processing times for canning the various recipes (which could result in spoiled food and even death). Also, the recipes for the various canning syrups are impossible to figure out. I think these were likely in-text charts in the hardcopy version, but these were not transfered properly into the Kindle version. I intend to report this problem to Amazon, and hopefully they can correct the problem, or at least refund my money! Other than that, this book offers sound advice on proper canning techniques and some recipes that sound tasty. Stick with the hardcopy and I think you'll have a great canning guide along with numerous recipes to try out.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Miserable Kindle formating, April 3, 2011

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Gregory Sparkle - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving (Kindle Edition)

How do I get my money back? On a Kindle,I can't read the figures nor tables. It doesn't have a working index. Bullet lists are all messed up. But, text is enlightening and informative. Too bad somebody can't straighten up the CRAZY Kindle formatting. I would buy the paperback but reviews say that it's messed up too. The Kindle blanks the tables in Section 3 if you just move the PDF over to the Kindle. Only works on a Windows laptop with PDF version.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars unreadable, November 11, 2010

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stargazer "author" (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving (Kindle Edition)

The info in the book may or may not be of value. Who can tell? The formatting in the Kindle edition looks as if some poor overworked underpaid secretary with no Kindle formatting experience or knowledge was forced to throw this into a file for publication as quickly as possible. Your tax dollars at work.

It can only be understood in full screen mode on a laptop. And there are a multitude of breaks where there should be no breaks and no break when a new page should start. Paragraphing was innacurate and all in all, the kindle edition, while inexpensive, is not really useable. I give it two stars for the technical info, and NO stars for the fact that you can't READ the technical info.