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This hip, modern handbook is filled with fresh and new ways to preserve nature’s bounty throughout the year. Organized by season and illustrated with beautiful photographs, it offers detailed instructions and recipes for making more than 150 canned, pickled, dried, and frozen foods, as well as 50 inventive recipes for dishes using these foods. Basic information on canning techniques and lively sidebars round out this refreshing take on a classic cooking tradition.

With simple step-by-step instructions and 175 delicious recipes, Put ‘em Up will have even the most timid beginners filling their pantries and freezers in no time! You’ll find complete how-to information for every kind of preserving: refrigerating, freezing, air- and oven-drying, cold- and hot-pack canning, and pickling. Recipes range from the contemporary and daring — Wasabi Beans, Cherry and Black Pepper Preserves, Pickled Fennel, Figs in Honey Syrup, Sweet Pepper Marmalade, Berry Bourbon, Salsa Verde — to the very best versions of tried-and-true favorites, including applesauce and apple butter, dried tomatoes, marinara sauce, bread and butter pickles, classic strawberry jam, and much, much more.

Encompassing four hundred delicious recipes, a comprehensive guide to home preserves features a wide array of salsas, savory sauces, chutneys, pickles, relishes, jams, jellies, fruit spreads, and more, along with complete instructions for safe canning and preserving methods, lists of essential equipment and kitchen utensils, and handy cooking tips.

Offers inspiration, basic principles, and safety guidelines for preserving food, with recipes arranged by the seasons in which particular ingredients should be fresh and affordable.

Provides instructions on how to preserve seasonal fruits and vegetables for year-round dishes, creating such items as jams, relishes, condiments, salsas, marmalades, pickled foods, sweet butters, and sauces.

Provides information about canning and preserving fruits and vegetables, and features one hundred recipes of jams, jellies, preserves, chutneys, pickles, and relishes.

Provides canning process recipes for jellies, jams, marmalades, conserves, relishes, salsas, chutneys, pickles, dessert sauces, fruit butter, vinegars, mince meats, and curds.

A comprehensive guide to home preserving and canning in small batches provides seasonally arranged recipes for 100 jellies, spreads, salsas and more while explaining the benefits of minimizing dependence on processed, store-bought preserves.

Accompanied by beautiful photographs, this cookbook, organized by season, provides practical, easy-to-follow instructions for home canning and freezing and features more than 200 recipes for using preserves in everything from appetizers and soups to main course dishes and desserts.

A Michelin-starred chef and an award-winning food writer present a collection of canning techniques, preserving recipes and seasonal menus inspired by favorite dishes from the co-author’s restaurant, Vie.