The All New Ball Book Of Canning And Preserving: Over 350 of the Best Canned, Jammed, Pickled, and Preserved Recipes

Ball Home Canning Test Kitchen

May 2016 · Time Inc. Books

About this ebook

From the experts at Jarden Home Brands, makers of Ball canning products, comes the first truly comprehensive canning guide created for today's home cooks. This modern handbook boasts more than 350 of the best recipes ranging from jams and jellies to jerkies, pickles, salsas, and more-including extender recipes to create brand new dishes using your freshly preserved farmer's market finds or vegetable garden bounty.

Organized by technique, The All New Ball Book of Canning and Preserving covers water bath and pressure canning, pickling, fermenting, freezing, dehydrating, and smoking. Straightforward instructions and step-by-step photos ensure success for beginners, while practiced home canners will find more advanced methods and inspiring ingredient twists.

Thoroughly tested for safety and quality by thermal process engineers at the Fresh Preserving Quality Assurance Lab, recipes range from much-loved classics — Tart Lemon Jelly, Tomato-Herb Jam, Ploughman's Pickles — to fresh flavors such as Asian Pear Kimchi, Smoked Maple-Juniper Bacon, and homemade Kombucha. Make the most of your preserves with delicious dishes including Crab Cakes garnished with Eastern Shore Corn Relish and traditional Strawberry-Rhubarb Hand Pies. Special sidebars highlight seasonal fruits and vegetables, while handy charts cover processing times, temperatures, and recipe formulas for fast preparation.

Lushly illustrated with color photographs, The All New Ball Book of Canning and Preserving is a classic in the making for a new generation of home cooks.

Ratings and reviews

Underwhelmed. Many of the recipes are ones using products you make with other recipes in the book...so you spend most of your time paging past those recipes in order to find the actual canning ones. Some of the other recipes require you either use commercially prepared canned tomatoes or take the time to can the tomatoes only to open your jars to make a meal you then can - what a waste of lids! They don't offer any alternatives which use fresh tomatoes. Additionally, they've 'tweaked' some of the basics like tomato juice. The recipe adds a beet. I use my tomato juice to make base gravy for curry sauces and chili - I have no need for beet flavor or sweetness in those recipes. There are also no options to omit anything (I get it's canning so ph is important but when they add non-traditional items there should at least be the basic version included as well) so if you don't like eggplant in your spaghetti sauce, for example, you'll have to look elsewhere for your recipe. Overall very disappointing.

I plan to "START CANNING", this Fall. I am a New Beginner. This book is a "MUST HAVE". JEANNETTE

About the author

Ball Home Canning Products are the gold standard in home preserving supplies and the trademark jars on display in stores every summer from coast to coast. As a leader in home food preservation, Jarden Home Brands is committed to continuing the tradition started by the Ball brothers and handed down through generations by providing quality products to help Americans preserve garden fresh produce. Join us in continuing our efforts to Preserve America for the next 125 years.