Create Your Home-Preserved Pantry with Nearly 100 Recipes & Beautiful Photographs ThroughoutImagine lining your shelves with made-from-scratch jars of garlicky tomato sauce, flavor-packed baked beans, ready-to-eat stew or peak-summer veggies. Pressure canning is an easy, delicious way to feed your family, and with the wisdom of preserving expert Angi Schneider, anyone can master this affordable, time-saving practice.Start with Pressure Canning 101, where Angi shares all of her best tips and tricks from 25+ years of experience. You’ll learn the ins and outs of your canner, as well as how to avoid botulism to ensure that your canned goods are safe to eat. Angi then shares in-depth guides and tons of creative, safe recipes for the most popular foods for canning—tomatoes, veggies, legumes (including beans), meats and soups. Everything you need to know is presented in Angi’s ultra-practical, easy-to-follow style. Forget overpriced takeout and premade grocery store meals. Instead, enjoy dinner in an instant with Butternut Squash and White Bean Soup, Swedish Meatballs or Pot Roast in a Jar. Share shelf-stable chicken broth with an under-the-weather neighbor or gift a grab-and-go gumbo to a friend. As Angi says, canning and community go hand in hand!This trusty, all-in-one handbook, packed with information and recipes, is one you will return to again and again as you create your very own self-sufficient pantry.
This book gives a good overview of pressure canning in the first chapter. I liked that she included a section called "Grandma's ways" that talks about how some old-time ways of canning are no longer considered safe and with canning it's best to err on the side of caution over tradition. And like I always say with any canning book - do NOT try to learn just from a book, take a class or learn from someone experienced. In my opinion, pressure canning is already intermediate level canning because water-bath canning is so easy that's where most people start. But, I like how this book is organized by type of food - tomatoes, vegetables, beef and pork, wild game, etc. There were a lot of recipes that look good and a few I'd like to try out. I would recommend this one to someone who's an experienced canner looking to expand into meat or more pressure-canning specific things.
Borrowed this one from a friend and I started writing down the recipes.... Then discovered that I was writing down 90% of the book! I'm about to purchase my own copy cause it's given me so much inspiration on how to preserve my harvest and fill my pantry with variety next year.
If you are going to do some pressure canning, this is a great recipe book to have. She has great directions on pressure canning, and wonderful recipes. I hadn't done any pressure canning, because I was kind of scared of it. I watched some yt videos (one on canning beef stew in particular from Homesteading Family) and I thought that I could probably do it, so I bought this book. I also liked the idea of having some beef stew on the shelf. The largest attraction to canning is to have some meals ready in case circumstances didn't allow for me to get a meal made. Eating out is a huge expense if you have a large family. I have canned a few things, we taste tested, and it has already come in handy when I didn't have anything ready to go. I took out a jar of canned ground beef with added broth, added some ketchup, salt, and pepper and I had sloppy joe's! Ten minute meal. It is a success!
A good recommendation for those who are new or experienced in pressure canning. I like how she included a section of "grandma's ways" that may not be acceptable anymore. Good info up front and recipes with photos in the back.
As with all food preservation use this as a tool in your arsenal to gain knowledge but seek out others to compare for redundancy, consistency, and even flavor differences. Especially when we're talking about food preservation that could harm your family. Afterall, we're doing this to save time and money in the pantry.
All inclusive! This is the only book you need to become a confident and successful canner! I'm not new to canning but was thrilled to come across Angi Schneider's collection of recipes, canning instructions, and basic information all in one place! Illustrations are wonderful! This book will get a LOT of use!
The instructions are a bit repetitive chapter to chapter, but it's almost helpful to feel more comfortable with the pressure canning process. And the recipes look great.