Wild Jams and Jellies: Delicious Recipes Using 75 Wild Edibles [Paperback]

Joe Freitus (Author), Salli Haberman (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 15, 2005

Contains countless recipes for jams, jellies, pickles, preserves, sauces, and butters, including:

Blueberry Jam

Strawberry Jelly

Cocoplum-Amaretto Sauce

Sapphireberry Preserves

Prickly Pear Jam

Spicy Black Gum Jelly

and many more!

Jam lovers looking for an alternative to preservatives, synthetic sweeteners, and artificial flavors have long turned to wild edibles as a source for their own spreads and condiments. Wild Jams and Jellies is an excellent primer on the art and science of creating these delectables, covering all the equipment you'll need as well as essential techniques for selecting plants, adding sugar and pectin, cooking on a stove or microwave, choosing containers, and creating a firm seal. It also includes hundreds of time-tested recipes, from familiar favorites such as cranberry sauce and grape jelly to more exotic selections like passion flower rum sauce and manzanita chow chow. Each one is a delicious treat, more flavorful, nutritious, and satisfying than anything you'll find in a supermarket.

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About the Author

Salli Haberman is an illustrator living in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Joe Freitus is a teacher, outdoorsman, and wild food enthusiast who has served as a consultant to the University of Massachusetts, the United States Air Force, and numerous other organizations. He lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Stackpole Books (September 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811732479
• ISBN-13: 978-0811732475
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,598,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Deja Vu All Over Again, February 8, 2010

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Taylor-Perry (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Wild Jams and Jellies: Delicious Recipes Using 75 Wild Edibles (Paperback)

Very little information is provided regarding the plants highlighted in the book; however, this book doesn't claim to be a foraging manual, it claims to be a cookbook, and it is -- a cookbook filled with the same three to six recipes over and over again, merely substituting different wild (or not so wild) fruit. Yes, it features 75 wild edibles, but considering that there's only about six recipes in it, it should only have been 81 pages long -- 75 to quickly gloss over the names and general conformation of the plants in question, and six for the recipes, with instruction to "insert X fruit here".

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Addition, November 30, 2009

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Jerilea Hendrick "duncanje" (Northwood, Iowa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wild Jams and Jellies: Delicious Recipes Using 75 Wild Edibles (Paperback)

I usually wait to review a book in this genre until after I've tried recipes, but since I'm not confident in my wild berry collecting skills (yet) and the season's past for this year, I'll review it based on just reading it. I think this book was very good, most of the various wild foods had 4-6 recipes each, excpet some of the nuts. The directions seem to be very well written and clear; I don't think I'll have a problem using them. This book, because it is focused on wild foods, would have greatly bennefited from colored pictures particularly for those individuals who are new to collecting wild edibles. Typically, I don't need pictures in a cook book but I think with the potential danger of collecting a wild plant that is toxic would boost my confidence. The other thing that I really would have liked to see in this book was a better description of what the fruit tasted like and perhaps what the recipe would go with (besides toast). Overall, I'm glad I purchased it.