Putting It Up With Honey: A Natural Foods Canning and Preserving Cookbook [Paperback]

Susan Geiskopf (Author), Linda Cleaver (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 10, 1979

A natural foods canning and preserving cookbook covering the basics of food preservation, instructions, and 200 taste-tested recipes. Learn to can with honey, pickle with all-natural spices and brines, and dry foods without sulphur, how to make pectin and vinegar, and how to construct drying trays to protect sun-drying foods.

Chock full of helpful hints, cautions and suggestions, Putting it up with Honey is a tool no householder should be without.

Does your garden overflow? Don't let those valuable foods go to waste. Put up the abundant harvests of summer and fall with . . . HONEY.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Quicksilver Productions; 3rd Printing edition (July 10, 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0930356136
• ISBN-13: 978-0930356132
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #482,027 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Natural Food Preservation, August 5, 2005

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Erika Mitchell (E. Calais, VT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Putting It Up With Honey: A Natural Foods Canning and Preserving Cookbook (Paperback)

This book is a guide to preserving fruits and vegetables while avoiding processed sugar. Although the book refers to honey in the title, not all the recipes use honey, but they all seek to preserve food in natural ways, without sugar or other questionable additives. The book begins with a short introduction describing canning methods and equipment. Then there are chapters on jams, preserves, butters and conserves, canned fruits, pickling, and dried foods. An appendix contains useful charts with amounts of food to be grown and canned for a family of six, a calendar showing which produce items are likely to be in season when, and some tips for canning. Specific canning tips for different techniques are also included in each of the chapters. There is an index.

I've tried several of the recipes in this book and found them to be straightforward to follow, and the end results have been tasty. Geiskopf includes a nice selection of berry recipes and some for rhubarb as well. Her recipes for dips to be used with dried foods as alternatives to sulfur preservation are particularly useful. However, the introductory material about canning can be a bit confusing. The explanations and instructions are a little hard to follow. Fortunately, clear descriptions of canning methods can be found in numerous other books, so if you use this book just for the recipes and get your canning information elsewhere, you should have no problems.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Canning with Honey, May 3, 2008

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Darryl Parker (Charlotte, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Putting It Up With Honey: A Natural Foods Canning and Preserving Cookbook (Paperback)

This is one of the best guides I've found in using honey as a replacement in canning and food preservation. The Ball Blue Canning Book #21400 only goes so far and doesn't get into the level of recipes that Geiskopf does. She has a wide variety of recipes. She also gets into pickles, relishes, dried foods and some dips which don't all require honey.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even Better than I Expected!, October 22, 2008

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Kitten Kisser (United States) - See all my reviews
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I am so happy with this book! I needed something that didn't include sugar in everything, honey being okay. Well, this book covers the sugar problem like a charm & even has jam type recipes with no pectin! Simply perfect for the SCDiet! We do a lot of canning & since having to go on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, I didn't know what to do! I can't even eat my canned goods. Now I can preserve safely, enjoying my hard work! There are many variations depending on your needs. The variety of recipes is great. This book is going to get A LOT of use! This will easily become my number one canning book!