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Preserving

Apple Harvest

Frank Browning / Hardcover / 144 pages / 1999

This book draws upon the apple's rich culinary tradition, and the folk cooking of his Appalachian heritage, to present an engaging, lavishly illustrated companion to apple and cider cookery. Full color. $15.49





Canning & Preserving Without Sugar

Norma M. MacRae / Paperback / 240 pages / 1996

Providing all the important how-tos on the equipment, techniques, and ingredients you will need to ensure safe and successful canning, this edition also features answers to common canning-and-preserving questions and details on using a microwave in the canning process $13.49





Quick & Easy Art of Smoking Food

Chris Dubbs / Paperback / 1991
$11.99








Home Book of Smoke Cooking Meat, Fish & Game

Jack Sleight / Paperback / 160 pages / 1982

"Teaches you with diagrams and cogent explanation how to smoke food in family rather than commercial quantities. An invaluable reference work, the first of the kind that evaluates the equipment and methods of smoking". -- New York Times $11.49





Preserving

Hardcover / 192 pages / 1996

Preserving encompassed every method of putting food by, from pickling and canning to less familiar methods such as salting, curing, and drying. Capture the flavors of summer and harvest time with more than 150 easy-to-follow recipes that transform vegetables, fruit, herbs, meat, and fish into irresistible preserves. A full-color photo album illustrates the fresh produce that can be preserved to turn the darkest cellar into a gallery of stained-glass colors. Illustrated step-by-step instructions explain each stage of the preserving process for delicious results every time, and a photographic guide highlights all the essential ingredients. With recipes for every preserved food from the simplest jelly to the most sophisticated pate, Preserving is truly a cookbook for all seasons. $25.49





Book of Preserves

Mary Norwak / Paperback / 128 pages / 1988

With its variety of jams, jellies, chutneys, mustards, and syrups to choose from, "The Book of Preserves" provides a wealth of traditional country recipes. Illustrated in color with step-by-step pictures to guide readers. $10.49





Well Preserved

Joan Hassol / Mass Market Paperback / 258 pages / 1998

Hassol combines mouth-watering recipes for jams and preserves with personal reflections on the spiritual joys of berry picking and apple gathering. Line drawings. $9.49





Art of Preserving

Jan Berry / Paperback / 160 pages / 1997

A gorgeously illustrated compendium of all that's sticky and delicious--jams, jellies, pickles, sauces, drinks, and chutneys--this volume provides a commonsense guide to the all-too infrequently practiced art of preserving, complete with recipes and color photos. $15.49





You Say Tomato:Peel, Chop, Roast, Dry, Freeze, Preserve, Cook, Eat, & Enjoy

Joanne Weir / Paperback / 288 pages / 1998

A fresh, ripe, still-warm-from-the-sun tomato with a sprinkling of coarse salt. A mug of creamy thick tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich. A bed of linguine topped with chunks of tomato and lobster. Chicken breasts filled with homemade oven-roasted tomato tapenade. Freshly pressed cold tomato juice ready and waiting for the perfect Bloody Mary.No matter how you say tomato, or how you eat it, You Say Tomato offers 250 international recipes featuring this versatile, beloved fruit. $13.99



Creative Pickling

Barbara Ciletti / Hardcover / 128 pages / 2000

$21.49







Pickles & Relishes:One Hundred Fifty Recipes - Apples to Zucchini Revised Edition

Andrea Chesman / Paperback / 152 pages / 1991

$11.49





Cooking & Canning with Mamma D'Amato

Antionette Damato / Hardcover / 160 pages / 1997

The quintessential Italian grandmother, Mamma D'Amato has been cooking and canning for friends, relatives and even senators (her son is outspoken New York Senator Alphonse D'Amato) for more than 60 years. In Cooking and Canning with Mamma D'Amato,she reveals the secrets of her Italian-American kitchen by sharing the recipes that have thrilled her family and friends for years. These wonderful recipes, Italian through and through, are so simple that the least-experienced cook can learn how to make authentic Italian meals rich in flavor and Old World charm, such as spinach and sausage pie, chicken cacciatore and boscotti. Mamma D'Amato even shares her recipe for her famous red sauce, the special ingredient in her tasty lasagna and spaghetti. She also takes readers through her surprisingly simple recipe for canning tomatoes and shares a wealth of canning recipes from cooks and canners throughout the country who show how easy it is to put up a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. The genuine warmth of this Italian matriarch comes through on every page, inviting everyone to slow down and enjoy the comforts of home, hearth, family and some hearty Italian meals. Anyone who appreciates good food and good times will love cooking and canning with Mamma D'Amato. $13.49



Dehydrator Cookbook

Joanna White / Paperback / 176 pages / 1998

Here is everything you need to know about dehydrating fruits, vegetables, meats, poultry and fish, plus delicious recipes for using your bounty. The book features only natural pretreatment methods. It covers times and temperatures for dehydrating over 50 types of produce to retain the highest possible nutritional value, techniques for all types of foods, meats, and fish, and much more. $7.99





Glass Pantry, The

Kathryn Kleinman / Hardcover / 144 pages / 1994

Capture the delicate taste of springtime tarragon in a flavored vinegar, the robust flavor of summer sun-dried tomatoes, the elegant bouquet of a winter vin d'orange, or the savory harvest of autumn in a confit of roasted leeks. The Glass Pantry contains simple recipes for sumptuous jams, preserves, marmalades, jellies, conserves, brandied fruit, confits, mustards, pickles, chutneys, infused wines, and flavored oils and vinegars, all based on the freshest seasonal ingredients. $25.49





Preserving Fruits & Vegetables:Making the Most of Seasonal Abundance (The Well Stocked Pantry Series)

Carol W. Costenbader / Hardcover / 96 pages / 1996

Catering to both the novice and the more experienced cook, this superbly illustrated guide provides a creative answer to preserving fruits and vegetables when they are most abundant, for the leaner months of the year. You can use the fruits and vegetables of each season (whether growing in your backyard, piled high at your local market, or on special at the grocery store) to make delicious homemade canned, dried, or frozen produce. All of the recipes have been fully tested and are the result of more than thirty years of preserving and canning experience. Each is illustrated with gorgeous color photographs that clearly illustrate simple step-by-step techniques to enable you to make perfect sundried tomatoes, easy canned spiced peaches, or a mouth-watering apple-pie filling. The book also includes helpful storage and buying tips, preparation hints, and gift ideas. $14.49





Preserving for All Seasons

Anne Gardon / Paperback / 176 pages / 1999

With 75 full color photos, Anne Gardon demonstrates the easy art of making preserves with style. The recipes are designed to be made in small quantities, and many take less than 30 minutes. $21.49





Stocking Up III:The All-New Edition of America's Classic Preserving Guide

Rodale Press Staff / Hardcover Textbook / 627 pages / 1958

Completely revised and updated, this classic is better than ever. Readers will find the basics along with the latest in home preservation techniques, 300 recipes, all new illustrations, nutritional charts, conversion tables, lists of selected fruit and vegetable varieties, and the most up-to-date information on home food safety. $22.99





America's All-Time Favorite Canning & Preserving Recipes

Hardcover / 96 pages / 1999 $11.49





Preserving Today

Jeanne Lesem / Paperback / 288 pages / 1997

A former food editor takes a new look at the age-old tradition of putting up fruits and vegetables against the coming winter. Lesem shows how to make various sauces, jellies, pickles, and more to spice up everyday meals. She creates innovative flavors using the food processor, the microwave, and the freezer. Also, she sprinkles her book with quotations from old almanacs, diaries, newspapers, and cookbooks to bring a lovely bit of nostalgia to the modern American table. 168 recipes. Line drawings throughout. $13.49



Rolling Prairie Cookbook:Over 130 Recipes Celebrating Fresh Produce

Nancy O'Connor / Paperback / 219 pages / 1999

Now that you're getting all that fresh produce every week from your local subscription farm, how are you going to use it? The original recipes in the Rolling Prairie Cookbook were developed for members of a CSA alliance and distributed each week with their produce. This delightful cookbook celebrates fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables with simple yet elegant recipes. Never again will your exuberant greens, exotic kohlrabi, and exhilarating herbs go to waste! And Rolling Prairie Cookbook will show you how to take advantage of those luscious berries, melons, tomatoes, leeks, sweet peppers, snow peas... in their harvest prime. You don't have to be a member of a subscription farm to benefit from this book -- all the better if you are -- just a lover of fresh fruits and vegetables $12.99





Mrs. Wages New Home Canning Guide

Dacus Food Group, Inc. Staff / Paperback / 1986

Home canning is an enjoyable way to preserve garden fresh produce at its finest. How comforting to know exactly which additives, chemicals or preservatives are in your food. $5.49

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