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Joy of Cooking: All About Canning & Preserving

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I bought four different books in preparation of the harvest season and having no idea what to do with 40L of berries. Of the four, this is the only one that is effectively illustrated, nicely organized and gives you all you need to know in a little more than 120 pages. It covers all the sorts of fruits and veg that most people will be happy with while leaving room for variation and experimentation. I just made a batch of the cranberry conserve that should be fabulous to enjoy during the dark days of winter.

I recently started canning and found this book to be a wonderful resource. There are lots of different types of recipes and they all taste great. The best blueberry jam I have ever had!

This cookbook contains all the instructions a beginner needs for canning. Being a total klutz in the kitchen and having a negative amount of cooking talent (i.e. can barely make toast without burning either myself or the toast), I wasn't expecting my first canning attempt to be a success. However, it was, and I now have several jars of delicious strawberry jam in my pantry! I will use this book a lot - it contains a nice diversity of recipes.

While it seems heretical to give such a low review to a classic book, I did not find this a good choice for canning/preserving reference. It has plenty of variety, but the material is extremely dense and hard to follow. Recipes are written in block paragraphs instead of steps, with ingredients and amounts in bolded type embedded in the body of the recipe rather than cleanly listed up front. Plenty of information but not user friendly at all.

This is a really cute book if you want to make a couple of jars of jelly to impress your friends but if you want a basic guide to canning that is practical and always useful, this is not the book for you. Try the Ball Book or "Company's Coming" for no fail recipes and stuff that is not so cute.

A handy book that includes timesaving techniques from microwave oven jams to quick pickles, classic recipes such as Strawberry Jam and Canned Tomatoes as well as exciting new recipes including Christmas Conserves and Four Citrus Marmalade. Recommended.

Janet Sue Terry - author of "A Rich, Deliciously Satisfying Collection of Breakfast Recipes".

This book is GREAT!!!! If you can, this is the book! I have used so many recipes out of this book already. This is the 1st time I have canned since I was 6 yrs old with my mother making jelly. this book is great.