Preserving Fruits & Vegetables (Well-Stocked Pantry) [Hardcover]

Carol W. Costenbader (Author)

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Catering to both the novice and the more experienced cook, this superbly illustrated guides provides a creative answer to preserving fruits and vegetables when they are most abundant, for the leaner months of the year.

You can use the fruits and vegetables of each season (whether growing in your backyard, piled high at your local market, or on special at the grocery store) to make delicious homemade canned, dried, or frozen produce.

All of the recipes have been fully tested and are the result of more than thirty years of preserving and canning experience. Each is illustrated with gorgeous color photographs that clearly illustrate simple step-by-step techniques to enable you to make perfect sun-dried tomatoes, easy canned spiced peaches, or a mouth-watering apple-pie filling.

The book also includes helpfull storage and buying tips, preparation hints, and gift ideas.

Both informative and inspirational, The Wellstocked Pantry: Preserving Fruits & Vegetables will soon take a favored place on your kitchen shelves and become a much-loved companion throughout every season.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (January 7, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882668528
• ISBN-13: 978-0882668529
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,401,512 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Food writer Carol Costenbader has cooked and preserved homegrown fruits, herbs, and vegetables for more than 35 years. Besides The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest, her books include Storey's Well-Stocked Pantry Series: Mustards, Ketchups & Vinegars and Preserving Fruits & Vegetables. Second in command of the family vegetable garden and a volunteer cook at Christian Ministries Homeless Shelter, Carol is founder of The Health Adventure and Friends of the Health Adventure, a good health teaching facility. Carol and her family divide their time between central Florida and the mountains of North Carolina.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An extremely useful book for ideas for preserving foods., July 30, 1997

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This review is from: Preserving Fruits & Vegetables (Well-Stocked Pantry) (Hardcover)

As a relatively new gardner who plants more than she could ever eat in a season but who knows little about what do with harvests, I found this book useful, easy to follow, and fun to read. Even though this book is a little package--only 96 pages including the index--it is packed with information. The step by step instructions are relatively easy to follow and are not overly complicated by jargon. The author never assumes that one will already know how to can or even blanche. I appreciated the tips and explanations. This book provides directions for freezing whole meals as well as canning jellies and other more traditional preserving techniques. I especially liked the ideas for preserving herbs so I can have my own grown herbs for use in the kitchen all year long. The book has wonderful photos and an abundance of ideas for utilizing a whole harvest. I am pleased I found this book in time to get my plums, tomatoes, and all the other fruit and vegetables I grew preserved and put to good use