The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food: Easy Step-by-Step Instructions for Freezing, Drying, and Canning [Paperback]

Janet Chadwick (Author)

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From the Back Cover

The Updated and Expanded Edition of Garden Way Publishing's Classic Guide

Discover the fast, easy way to save and preserve fresh and healthy fruits, vegetables, and herbs with this indispensable guide. The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food is packed with time-saving tips and advice for freezing, canning, cold storage, and drying. Here is the most up-to-date information on preserving food in the shortest amount of time right at your fingertips.

The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food includes:

* Step-by-step instructions and how-to illustrations for preserving today's most popular fruits and vegetables quickly and easily

* Quick tips and shortcuts for saving time while canning

* Instructions for alternative preserving methods including freezer bags, easy-to-make ice packs, and root cellaring

* Practical charts for determining yield and blanching time

* A review of equipment and appliances essential to fast home preservation

* Recipes for harvest dinners, salsas, herbal vinegars, pestos, jellies, and teas

Plus, you get simple explanations and solutions for the most common "what-went-wrong" questions. A must-have guide for today's busy cook and gardener.

About the Author

The author of several cooking and gardening books, Janet Chadwick has been growing and preserving food for years. Chadwick says, "There is no way you can 'buy' the feeling of pride you have when you show off the full freezer; the rows of canned vegetables, fruits, pickles, jams, jellies; or the root cellar shelves filled to the ceiling!" She is the author of Storey's The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food. Janet lives in Hinesburg, Vermont, where she has been growing and preserving food for years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC; Revised edition (January 8, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882669001
• ISBN-13: 978-0882669007
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #638,453 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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49 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Practical and Simple Guidebook for Preserving Food, August 15, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food: Easy Step-by-Step Instructions for Freezing, Drying, and Canning (Paperback)

I used to feel intimidated about preserving fresh vegetables. I thought all sorts of expensive equipment and a vast knowledge of preserving were needed in order to successfully preserve food. Then I purchased a copy of The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food and was delighted to find that I could almost effortlessly preserve many of the fresh vegetables I grew and still have good results with the finished product. Now, I look forward to a healthy crop of green beans, yellow squash, zucchini, and tomatoes and no longer wonder what I'll do with all of the produce.

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Teriffic book for a beginner!, December 21, 2000

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"simmoncn" (Falls Church, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food: Easy Step-by-Step Instructions for Freezing, Drying, and Canning (Paperback)

I used this book when i was just starting to learn how to can, and it was a savior. Provides detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to can, freezer, and dry store. Also contains great basic receipes to get you started.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource even for beginners, June 15, 2008

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Jennifer - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food: Easy Step-by-Step Instructions for Freezing, Drying, and Canning (Paperback)

The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food: Easy Step-by-Step Instructions for Freezing, Drying and Canning is an excellent resource if you need help learning how to preserve food. It gives the preferred preservation method for all different types of fruits and vegetables then also gives alternate methods for each as well. You can definitely preserve produce you buy locally as well as produce you grow using the methods in this book even if you have never done so before.