false 858838 1 If you've been laboring under the illusion that your grandmother just smashed berries into a jar or that pickles grew on exotic pickle trees, prepare to be enlightened with Linda J. Amendt's <I>Blue Ribbon Preserves: Secrets to Award-Winning Jams, Jellies, Marmalades & More</I>. Canning, as shown in this exhaustive edition, is as much a science as an art, and this book includes every detail to educate the uninformed on what it takes to make great preserves. <p> Her recipes include the standards, such as strawberry jam, and the obscure, such as Garlic and Onion Jam. Amendt also does the public service of explaining the real difference between jams and jellies. Special caution about food safety holds a prominent place in <I>Blue Ribbon Preserves</I> and Amendt teaches us how to chose optimal foods for canning as well as how to safely store preserves to avoid potentially lethal food contamination. Be prepared for a bit of a chemistry lesson, which can be a long and sometimes didactic read, but it's well worth it for the critical food-safety information. <p> So complete is the book that Amendt, herself a recipient of countless state-fair awards for her preserves, includes pointers on how to succeed at such competitions (in a very thorough chapter which includes insights into how judges pick their winners). <I>Blue Ribbon Preserves</I> covers everything that goes into a ball jar and more, and in the process earns not only a tight seal of quality but its own blue ribbon. <I>--Teresa Simanton</I> 844280 1 7 2001 Blue Ribbon Preserves: Secrets to Award-Winning Jams, Jellies, Marmalades and More total:12|5:3|4:7|3:2|2:0|1:0| 12 49 25 3 4 0 false false Sat Oct 17 20:09:52 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 20:11:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jan 09 20:12:41 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 15 10:03:49 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jan 14 16:30:26 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 17:07:09 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jun 29 20:22:59 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 20:23:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jun 25 15:43:14 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 15:43:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Apr 27 21:45:41 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 21:45:41 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Apr 14 08:58:05 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 08:58:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 08 09:31:51 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 09:31:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Mar 14 08:52:46 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 08:52:46 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Mar 06 09:42:35 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 09:42:35 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jan 08 16:47:59 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 16:47:59 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 01 06:33:47 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 06:33:58 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Sep 29 13:42:40 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 13:42:40 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Sep 19 09:10:16 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 09:10:16 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Sep 15 10:10:52 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 10:10:52 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Sep 10 10:11:24 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 11:34:33 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Sep 08 14:32:06 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 14:32:06 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Jan 17 05:57:46 -0800 2009 Mon Sep 01 20:42:35 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 17 05:57:46 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Nov 03 17:39:13 -0800 2008 Mon Aug 18 10:32:06 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 03 17:39:13 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat Aug 02 09:45:05 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 09:45:05 -0700 2008