My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a great book for people who love to preserve their own food. From dried mushrooms to homemade raisins, BBQ sauce to salsa, you can find what you’re looking for.

The book starts with Techniques, Food Preparation and Food Preservation Methods. It then moves to Working in Groups, Things That Will Surely Get You Into Trouble and Things That Look Bad but Aren’t Dangerous. After that, we get to the recipes. Recipes are arranged in alphabetical order according to major ingredient.

As a cookbook lover, I come across different ingredients all the time, and some aren’t so easy to find. For instance, I’ve come across lots of recipes in many different books calling for preserved lemons. I live in the South, and I haven’t seen them for sale anywhere, but with this book I can make my own. It includes a recipe for Lemon Curd as well, something I adore!

If you like making your own jams and jellies, you’ll love this. From Classic Strawberry to Ginger Peach or Fennel and Onion, Orange Marmalade and more, you’ll find many great recipes. Pickle lover? There’s a large variety of pickles, and I don’t mean just pickled cucumbers!

I really enjoyed this cookbook, and I think anyone who enjoys putting up their own produce, or someone who wants to get started will really enjoy it as well.

I received a copy of this book from Storey Publishing for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.