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Putting Food By Book - 5th Edition

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The definitive guide to canning, freezing, and preserving food with updated methods.

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Description

This is the quintessential work on the best ways to can, freeze, pickle, dry, cure and preserve just about anything.

Product Highlights
  • Updated 5th edition includes the newest canning procedures, equipment and preparation times
  • Instructions for canning, freezing, salting, smoking, drying and root cellaring
  • Mouthwatering recipes for pickles, relishes, jams and jellies
  • Learn to preserve food with less sugar and salt (recipes included)
  • Well-researched tips on equipment, ingredients, health and safety issues and resources
  • Comprehensive index
  • Greene, Hertzberg and Vaughan
  • 5-1/4" x 8"
  • 454 pp.

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Content

1. What Is It?
2. Why Foods Spoil
3. Altitude and Metrics
4. Fair Warning
5. Common Ingredients and How to Use Them
6. The Canning Methods
7. Canning Fruits
8. Canning Tomatoes
9. Canning Vegetables
10. Canning Meats
11. Canning Seafood
12. Canning Convenience Foods
13. Getting and Using a Freezer
14. Freezing Fruits
15. Freezing Vegetables
16. Freezing Meats and Seafood
17. Freezing Convenience Foods
18. Jellies, Jams and Other Sweet Things
19. Pickles, Relishes and Other Spicy Things
20. Curing with Salt and Smoke
21. Drying
22. Root-Cellaring
23. Putting By Presents for Christmas
Appendix: Where to Find Things
Index

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