Canning and Preserving: Your Quick and Easy Guide to Fresh Food All Year Long

By Sara Elliott Price

Discover How Canning Allows You to Enjoy Your Favorite Fresh Foods, Anytime--Year Round!

You can save money, stay healthy, and enjoy food from your garden during the winter--simply by learning to can your own food. Canning and preserving is much easier than you might think.  Whether you've found your Grandmas delicious jam recipe, you want to have tomatoes from your garden year round, or maybe you just don't want to give away those few extra pounds of berries you picked, it's time to consider home canning.

Canning will satisfy your craving for delicious, local produce all year long! 

In much of Europe, canning and preserving food is still a routine practice today. Sometimes it's the only reliable way to enjoy high quality, nutritious food year round. Canning keeps your food safe and delicious a lot longer than any refrigerator ever can. And even better, when you're done your extra food won't take up the limited space in your fridge or freezer!

It's not difficult to do. If you have a stove, some extra shelf space out of direct sunlight, and a recipe you want to try, it's time for you to consider canning your own food at home.

Here's a preview of what's inside…

• The different methods used for home canning
• What equipment you need and how to prepare it
• How to safely & effectively can your favorite foods
• Bacteria, bugs, and more: what to avoid and why
• The essentials you need to know for successful canning
• What you need to know about properly canning meat
• An assortment of canning recipes to help you get started fast
• Plus, so much more!

If you've ever wanted a better option than the freezer to preserve your favorite foods you owe it to yourself to learn how to properly can and preserve your own food. It truly is one of those great life skills everyone should posses.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sara Elliott Price
• Release date: Apr 28, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386490685

Book preview

Introduction

Canning is a safe and thrifty way to preserve high quality food, year round from the comforts of home. Canning and preserving your own food can easily save you half the cost of purchasing your food from the store. Many people find it very rewarding to have a level of self-sufficiency when it comes to the food they eat. Canning and preserving your own foods can give you a great deal of satisfaction knowing that you and your family are eating healthier, and saving money at the same time. 

The large amounts of water in fresh fruits, vegetables and animal foods means they are very perishable. They will spoil and lose their quality for many reasons:

Growth of molds, bacteria and yeasts

Food enzyme activity

Oxygen exposure

Loss of moisture

Most produce begins to lose a large amount of its nutritional value once harvested. A big portion of the nutrients will be lost within a matter of a few days. Even after refrigerating, over half of the vitamins will be missing in just a matter of a week or two. If you handle and can your produce properly, it can last longer and be much more nutritious that anything sold in local stores.

You will lose a lot of the nutritional advantages of canning your own foods if you begin with low quality foods. When possible, you may even want to harvest your produce yourself to ensure the best quality you can. You also lose many benefits, and can even jeopardize anyone eating your produce if it spoils because the jars failed to seal properly or the food inside spoiled from improper processing or deterioration because they were stored too long. You can also face botulism poisoning if you are not careful to properly process your