Canning books

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I am interested in another canning book. I have and like the Ball book, but I want more recipes. Thank you in advance for suggesting your personal favorites! :-) (Specifically need a recipe for Picante sauce that is close to Pace brand)

-- Debbie in MO (risingwind@socket.net), January 23, 2002

Answers

I tried searching for that Ball book on amazon and a couple of other places. I didn't find it. What is the full title of it?

-- anita in nc (anitaholton@mindspring.com), January 23, 2002.

I have and love the Farm Journal Freezing and Canning cookbook.

-- Christine Young (Christine_Young@Brown.edu), January 23, 2002.

Go to your public library and browse the section on canning. I personally like Stocking Up as a general, all around reference. The Ball book gives the most basic of recipes and just about all other books on canning give you a lot more. Still, when I start canning, Ball is what I reach for first, to make sure I remember canning time and basic ingredients. Then I go for other books to see what I can do to "dress up" green beans, for instance. For canning soups and such, I go to Stocking Up first.

I discovered quickly that I could spend a mint of money on canning books, so I get them from the library now instead. Was astonished to find a long shelf full of books on canning right during the most intense canning time last summer. I make notes, and type recipes I like into a computer file folder named of course Canning. I have so much reference stuff saved that if this computer ever goes, I'm toast...

-- Carol - in Virginia (carollm@rockbridge.net), January 23, 2002.


Anita, Wal mart has those Ball books...

-- Debbie in MO (risingwind@socket.net), January 23, 2002.

I don't think anyone has ever written a better book on the subject of canning and food preservation in general than Putting Food By which you can still get new in paperback the last time I checked.

Since you already have the Ball Blue Book I'd get Stocking Up, preferbably the first edition, but I'd get Putting Food By FIRST.

.........Alan.

-- Alan (athagan@atlantic.net), January 23, 2002.



I think Carol's suggestion of using the library is a very good one. I have gotten to the point that I will not buy a book until I have read it. Almost all libraries now have access to other libraries books; in fact my little country library is now hooked up to most in the state and it is all available for me to search by topic, author or title. If, after reading it, I decide that I simply "must" own it, I can then try and find one used or buy it new. I do own the first edition of "Stocking Up" and also "Putting Food By" and use them quite frequently along with the Ball Blue Book.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), January 23, 2002.

Get the Ball book, I have the others too but for a real beginner the Ball book is best. The others use honey and other ingredients that are harder to use and find for a beginner. Just my opinion!! I raise bees so I enjoy using honey but glad I learned first with the Ball book. Debbie Saw them at Walmart last year

-- debbie (bwolcott@cwis.net), January 24, 2002.

Go to Kopy Cat recipes or Top Secret Recipes (.com) and find the recipe you are looking for.

Follow the canning times for the food item that takes the longest to process(this is where the blue book comes in handy). I wouldn't use a water bath to process but instead use a pressure canner.

When in doubt...contact your local extension office.

-- westbrook (westbrook_farms@yahoo.com), January 24, 2002.


I discovered Blue Ribbon Preserves by Linda J. Amendt at the library last fall and copied some of the recipes. There are some unusual ones that aren't covered by the Ball book.

-- Katherine in KY (KyKatherine@Yahoo.com), January 24, 2002.

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