Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving by Us D Of Agr

Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving by Us D Of Agr

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.

The DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE's panel of professionals includes farm management experts, state farm advisers, agricultural economists, and the former Secretary of Agriculture. CHRISTINE WOODSIDE is a freelance editor and writer whose work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Backpacker, Yankee, Woman's Day, and Publishers Weblog. Energy Independence (Lyons Press) is her other book. She and her husband, Nat Eddy, traveled the entire Appalachian Trail in 1987.

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ISBN 13	9780486409313
ISBN 10	0486409317
Title	Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving
Author	Us D Of Agr
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dover Publications Inc.
Year published	1999-05-13
Number of pages	192
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