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
yep and
yep....
for the first one the
Good Housekeeping Complete Book of Home Preserving... 1981 if you can still find a copy!
;D
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! ::)
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.
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
I second the scousers book - mine is so well used the pages are covered in preserve splats! ;D
Got both! yep, can recommend.
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 :-\ !
There are a couple of copies of the Readers Digest 'Produce from your garden' book up for auction t he moment I see..