Product Description

With this indispensable guide readers will discover the fastest, easiest way to stockpile and preserve the season's best fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Included are step-by-step instructions for storing today's most popular produce quickly and easily. Food-by-food suggestions for the best preservation methods (including microwave) save the reader lots of time.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #113704 in Books
• Published on: 1995-01-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover
The Updated and Expanded Edition of Garden Way Publishing's Classic Guide

Discover the fast, easy way to save and preserve fresh and healthy fruits, vegetables, and herbs with this indispensable guide. The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food is packed with time-saving tips and advice for freezing, canning, cold storage, and drying. Here is the most up-to-date information on preserving food in the shortest amount of time right at your fingertips.

The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food includes:
* Step-by-step instructions and how-to illustrations for preserving today's most popular fruits and vegetables quickly and easily
* Quick tips and shortcuts for saving time while canning
* Instructions for alternative preserving methods including freezer bags, easy-to-make ice packs, and root cellaring
* Practical charts for determining yield and blanching time
* A review of equipment and appliances essential to fast home preservation
* Recipes for harvest dinners, salsas, herbal vinegars, pestos, jellies, and teas

Plus, you get simple explanations and solutions for the most common "what-went-wrong" questions. A must-have guide for today's busy cook and gardener.

About the Author
The author of several cooking and gardening books, Janet Chadwick has been growing and preserving food for years. Chadwick says, "There is no way you can 'buy' the feeling of pride you have when you show off the full freezer; the rows of canned vegetables, fruits, pickles, jams, jellies; or the root cellar shelves filled to the ceiling!" She is the author of Storey's The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food. Janet lives in Hinesburg, Vermont, where she has been growing and preserving food for years.

Customer Reviews

Busy Person Guide to Preserving Food
I ordered serval books about preserving food and this one was the best. Easy to read and a good starter book for preserving vegtables and herbs.
This is our third year tiling our garden and the most abundant.

Gardening in Massachusetts

Great book, but cooking in plastic? yuck!
This book is full of great info, giving different preserving options for the veggies and fruits most frequently harvested by home gardeners.

But if you, like our family, prefer to NOT cook food, especially your organically grown veggies, in plastic "boiling" bags, then you might find some of the advice as frustrating as I did.

Overall, a great starting point, but I'm going to look elsewhere for canning and freezing advice.

Excellent resource even for beginners
The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food: Easy Step-by-Step Instructions for Freezing, Drying and Canning is an excellent resource if you need help learning how to preserve food. It gives the preferred preservation method for all different types of fruits and vegetables then also gives alternate methods for each as well. You can definitely preserve produce you buy locally as well as produce you grow using the methods in this book even if you have never done so before.