Anyone got these...

[kt.]

2 things: Firstly - Anybody recommend a good book for making & storing jams, chutneys, pickles and all that sort of stuff from garden produce?

Secondly - Anybody got this book? Thought I would get opinions first. I was looking at this in the shop section of this site.

How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency
By Piers Warren

Or this:  Keeping the Harvest: Preserving Your Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs, Canning, Jams and Jellies, Freezing, Pickling, Drying, Curing, Cold Storage (Down-To-Earth Book)
by Nancy Thurber

[kt.]

[saddad]

yep and
yep....
for the first one the
Good Housekeeping Complete Book of Home Preserving... 1981 if you can still find a copy!
;D

[Amazin]

Here's a couple you might be interested in - I know I am!

Following on from Saddad's message, there's a similar book from 2005 called The "Good Housekeeping" Complete Book of Preserves:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Housekeeping-Complete-Book-Preserves/dp/184340267X

and another called The Complete Book of Year-round Small Batch Preserving

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Year-round-Small-Batch-Preserving/dp/1552094898

...and only 360 days until my next birthday - typical!  ::)

[emmy1978]

The first one is excellent, also the Readers Digest 'produce from your garden' from the 70's is brilliant- best looked for in charity shops I think, mine donated by grandparents, but there seems to be a recipe or preserving method for just about everything in there.

[manicscousers]

if you want something to really get you going, try Preserving by Oded Schwartz
it's got everything in it, including preserving meat, fish, make your own salami..brilliant recipes  ;D

[Mrs Ava]

I second the scousers book - mine is so well used the pages are covered in preserve splats! ;D

[Biscombe]

Got both! yep, can recommend.

[kitten]

Hi kt, we have that book, however I haven't read it yet.  I bought it for the chef of the family (sis's boyf) who's sharing the plot with us - I'm hoping he'll volunteer to do the preserving  :-\ ! 

[Deb P]

There are a couple of copies of the Readers Digest 'Produce from your garden' book up for auction t he moment I see..