Customer Review: This book is great for beginners or those with little experience in canning - especially pressure canning. Lots of recipes and instructions though a little higher-priced than I would have thought. For the experienced canner there is little in this book that you can't find online with a... more info
Customer Review: Love this book. The author did a great job providing several different forms of root cellaring and comprehensive instructions on how to build and maintain them. Everything from building an out building, to using an old refrigerator. Plenty of sketches and photos. They include lists of produce that... more info
Customer Review: This is a great book and I love it, but I've found some errors, I believe, in the sausage recipes. They often say to use 2-3 tablespoons of salt for 5 lb of meat. If one tablespoon is 3 teaspoons, that is 6-9 teaspoons. Most of the recipes I've seen elsewhere call for just one teaspoon of salt per... more info
Customer Review: Great book to add to my canning information. Will put to use some of the new techniques (to me) in my canning and food storage for next year.
Customer Review: I needed to get more information on how to dehydrate foods, what foods were good to dehydrate and then how do I use them later in a recipe. This book covers all that and I am looking forward to using it very often as my resource.
Customer Review: Canning & Preserving for DummiesI bought this book so I could learn the old art of preserving. I live in Maine and most of my neighbors have small farms and blueberry fields, so they offer me fresh fruits and vegetables all summer long, but I want to preserve them for those long, cold Maine... more info
