Topic: recommended preserving book?

[jennym]

My trusty favourite is: May Byron's Jam Book.
Alas, probably out of print and first published by Hodder and Stoughton, probably between the wars. Straightforward recipes, in plain English, covering every fruit you can think of. Worth its weight in gold.

[tim]

As said, the HMSO one is the one I lean upon. Because it's a Government thing which I rely upon for method rather than recipe. BUT - my copy is 1989, & one must be careful about changing ideas on preserving. Like we used to bottle vegetables. Like corn & beans. They look so good in jars.

If anyone can't read their photocopies, I'll happily mail you any doubtful pages.

[moonbells]

As said, the HMSO one is the one I lean upon. Because it's a Government thing which I rely upon for method rather than recipe. BUT - my copy is 1989, & one must be careful about changing ideas on preserving. Like we used to bottle vegetables. Like corn & beans. They look so good in jars.

If anyone can't read their photocopies, I'll happily mail you any doubtful pages.

To be honest, I don't know why those things aren't still in there.
Yes, freezing is better and quicker and less likely to go wrong and everyone has one, but I'm nearly out of freezer space and I have finally educated all the folk I know to give me bottles which I choose the best of; I would dearly love to bottle my beans! (That and I'd go SPARE if we had a power cut!*)

I think orange tomato passata will be made any day now.  And I'm definitely bottling that!

moonbells

*actually if we had a serious power cut I'd be bottling the stuff out of the freezer as fast as I could!

[Catherine]

 ;DThanks for all the ideas, just ordered the hmso one from amazon....