Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving

by U.S. Department of Agriculture

This practical, easy-to-follow-guide—newly revised and updated—offers food shoppers an attractive, high-quality alternative to high-priced, overprocessed, and undernourishing foods. Virtually everything you need to know about home canning is here: how to select, prepare, and can fruits, vegetables, poultry, red meats, and seafoods; how to preserve fruit spreads, fermented foods, and pickled vegetables; how to test jar seals, identify and handle spoiled canned foods, prepare foods for special diets, and much more.
Also included are scores of simply written recipes that enable even beginners to prepare such taste-tempting dishes as smoked fish, turkey-tamale pie, chicken croquettes, Mexican tomato sauce, strawberry-rhubarb pie, chile con carne, apple butter, pickled sweet green tomatoes, and a peach-pineapple spread.
Easy-to-follow directions make canning simple even for those who have never tried it. Nothing is assumed! Every step, every detail is carefully explained and has been thoroughly tested by government experts.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Nonfiction, Adult

192 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1983

Reviews

[Mo · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must have for those wanting to can. Processing times and methodology for all USDA tested ingredients.

It is available online, but I also purchased a hard copy.

[Simon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very thorough and detailed. I now understand how canning works, as well as some precautions to take before and during canning to make the best end product possible.

[Wynter · Rating 5 out of 5]

The gold standard for canning at any stage.

[Alicia Sands]

After a number of reprehensible cookbooks with fantastical illustrations of successful jams and pickling but without the information to replicate such presentations, and after wasting two days and twenty pounds of gorgeous Northern Michigan asparagus in a pickling travesty, I'm trying this Guide published by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, and going strawberry picking. Conclusions to follow.

[Tara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Layout is basic, but info is SO comprehensive. I was was going to buy a book on this topic, this would be the one.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Canning is a very rewarding endeavor, and this is the definite go to book for home canners, with excellent information.