The Complete Guide to Home Canning: Current Printing

"This deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of The USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning is a richly illustrated and info-packed instruction manual and recipe book with ideas and processes for traditional food preservation, home canning, and pickling/fermentation. Revised in 2015, this book is sure to make the home food preserver happy. This book is a wonderful addition to the collections of both newcomer and veteran canners, homesteaders, or traditional skills enthusiasts, and sure to help you keep your pantry full of food year round! This book, officially released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, encourages you to safely preserve your harvests and have delicious, healthy foods on your shelves to keep your family well-fed. Topics include principles of canning and food safety, how to prepare foods for canning, special notes of preserving tomatoes and tomato products, recipes for preserving vegetables of all kinds, processes for canning meats and seafoods, pickling, fermenting, and canning fermented vegetables, canning fruits, and making preserves, jams, and jellies. This unabridged Doublebit Press Legacy Edition reprint is professionally restored and presented from the original sources with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Readers can enjoy this edition for generations and learn from its timeless knowledge for years to come." -- Back cover.