Canning & Preserving for Dummies

• BALL Complete Book of Home Preserving
• Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving (Second Revised Edition)
• Back to Basics 286 5-Piece Home-Canning Kit
• Preserving Summer's Bounty: A Quick and Easy Guide to Freezing, Canning, and Preserving, and Drying What You Grow
• Presto 23-Quart Pressure Cooker/Canner

Enjoy delicious, do-it-yourself treats year-round – and they make great gifts!

Putting up fruits and vegetables in your home is as easy as pie with this step-by-step guide to canning and preserving. With easy-to-follow recipes, up-to-date safety guidelines, and simple, fun techniques, you’ll find everything you need to fill your pantry with savory, homemade fare.

The Dummies Way

• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Icons and other navigational aids
• Tear-out cheat sheet
• Top ten lists
• A dash of humor and fun

I am a beginner and this book is fabulous. love it - deb bouchard you can't go wrong. it tells you eveything you need to know and then some.

Good overview for a beginner, but I wanted more canning recipes. If you decide to get this, you'll need another book down the road if you decide to can or preserve anything else. You'll need to go to another book to get that. This one just had a few jelly, salsa, pickle and a few directions on canning specific fruits and vegetables with very little on food dehydration.

as always the 'for dummies' series is always full of interesting, educational information without being boring. alot of the info in the book can be found on the fda websites for free download, but it's got some good solid info and makes a nice gift for the novice canner.

Canning & Preserving for DummiesI bought this book so I could learn the old art of preserving. I now have most of my Xmas gifts all done. I live in Maine and most of my neighbors have small farms and blueberry fields, so they offer me fresh fruits and vegetables all summer long, but I want to preserve them for those long, cold Maine winter nights.Hehehehehe. This book helped me preserve over 20 different fruits and vegetables and I love it.

I also am waiting on the Blue Ball Book which I read some of at WalMart and that book also is a big help. I LOVE THIS BOOK. It clearly explains how to and when to can foods. So, now I know what 2 books I will keep in my kitchen library to help make canning a success for myself and my son. I use it like my canning dictionary and reference it constantly.