Easy Home Canning Step By Step Author:Judith Knight Easy Home Canning is two books in one. For the Beginner, be that man or woman, it takes you Step By Step through all the How Tos of canning your own produce. As a Beginner you will learn from Judith Knight, who is a 20-year canning expert, everything from what best equipment to buy, right through to how to can like an expert yourself using bot... more »h the water-bath and pressure canning methods. Unlike any other canning book each of the 100 recipes in Easy Home Canning has its own specific step-by-step instructions. That's why we called it "EASY Home Canning." If you are already an expert, you will not only find the included charts and checklists a tremendous quick-reference guide, you will also find recipes that are quite unique to this book, based on Judith's many years of experimenting with both water-bath and pressure canning techniques. Have you a yen for chile? Or seafood? Or a need to can game and poultry you have hunted or raised yourself? There is nothing better than taking advantage of fresh produce from your own garden or from farmers markets and commercial orchards during the peak season so you can preserve any surplus and always have food you can trust on hand in your own pantry. Easy Home Canning - Step By Step is the common sense way to beat rising food prices, and even food shortages if droughts or floods take their toll on the big producers. In these tough economic times, it makes sense to do everything you can (pun intended) to have your own emergency supplies on hand - and home-canned food is one of the best insurance policies you can think of. Easy Home Canning teaches you how to preserve food in glass. Why is that important? Because things like meat and fish preserved in glass will last much much longer, with full nutrition and flavor, than what you might buy in tin cans that have a plastic inner coating. Of course, there is an upper limit to this, and storage does require attention to detail, such as keeping your jars as best you can at around an average of 60-F, but even if this varies somewhat, the author has opened canned salmon, as just one example, after 10 years on the shelf, and it makes the best salmon dip you can imagine. (Results may vary, as they say, and "not responsible" for anything you might experience as a result of using this book and its information, which are for educational purposes only). That said, you will not find another canning book anywhere that includes step-by-step instructions for 100 recipes including how to can and preserve cakes and bread. Did you know that you can be canning at any time of the year? Yes, you can can year-round, whether its fresh blackberries in the summer, game in the fall, vegetables at harvest time, fruit from those commercial orchards, or even the produce that you can get from any supermarket at any time of the year. Another major plus to knowing how to can is that if you suddenly find yourself without power to the freezer for any length of time, you can quickly can what you have in there (yes, we show you how to use a special gas burner when the power is out) and potentially save yourself from losing perhaps hundreds of dollars worth of frozen food that would otherwise simply rot and have to be thrown away. Yes, there are other canning books on the market, and they haven't changed their recipes in 50 years. Worse still, they can be very difficult to follow, whereas Easy Home Canning was designed especially with the Beginner in mind, along with 100 recipes with step-by-step instructions. It doesn't get any better than that. Love and best wishes. Judith Knight.« less