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Food Preservation

Selected Books

Alfeld, Beverly Ellen Schoonmaker
Pickles to Relish
TX603.A37 2008
This cookbook by "The Jamlady" offers recipes for and details about making pickles, chutneys, and relishes. Includes information for pickling, curing, freezing, and canning.
 
(Ball)Complete Book of Home Preserving: 400 Delicious and Creative Recipes for Today
TX601.C635 2006x
A comprehensive guide to safe canning and preserving at home, including instructions for beginners, tips for experienced cooks and 400 recipes. Written by experts from a company specializing in home canning product.
 
Bills, Jay
Dehydrating Food: A Beginner's Guide
TX609.B52 2010
Fortunately you don't need a dry Mediterranean climate to dry food. This book shows you all the various dehydrators that you can buy or make, as well as guiding you through the dehydration process.
 
Bone, Eugenia
Well-Preserved: Recipes and Techniques for Putting up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods
TX603.B6577 2009
In this book, Eugenia Bone, a New Yorker whose Italian father was forever canning everything from olives to tuna, describes the art of preserving in an accessible way. Though she covers traditional water bath and pressure canning in detail, she also shares simpler methods that allow you to preserve foods using low-tech options like oil-preserving, curing, and freezing.
 
Corbin, Pam
The River Cottage Preserves Handbook
TX814.5.J35 C67 2010
In this 75-recipe collection, River Cottage Farm master preserver Corbin introduces a world of jams, jellies, butters, curds, pickles, chutneys, cordials, liqueurs, vinegars, and sauces that can be made from local produce throughout the year.
 
Costenbader, Carol W.
The Big Book Of Preserving The Harvest
TX603.C763 2002
"150 Recipes for Freezing, Canning, Drying and Pickling Fruits and Vegetables"
Learn how to save a summer day -- in batches -- using the latest inexpensive, time-saving techniques for drying, freezing, canning, and pickling in the latest edition of this classic primer.
 
Dowdney, Stephen Palmer
Putting Up: a Year-Round Guide to Canning in the Southern Tradition
TX603.D69 2008
Dowdney explains how to put up crops harvested during each month of the year and includes 65 of the most popular recipes he produces for his successful canning business.
 
Ferrari, Linda
Jams, Jellies & Preserves: Make beautiful gifts to give (or keep)
TX612.J3 F47 1996
More than 50 easy-to-follow recipes, many for mixed fruit spreads and jams.
 
Greene, Janet C.
Putting Food By
TX601.H54 2010
This is the 5th and latest edition of a classic work on food preservation first published in 1973. Covers freezing, canning, pickling, curing, drying.
 
Katz, Sandor Ellix, 1962-
Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, And Craft Of Live-Culture Foods
TP371.44.K37 2003
There are many types of fermented foods like sauerkraut, kimchee and miso, not to mention beer and wine. Check out Sandor's website at WildFermentation.com.
 
Krissoff, Liana
Canning for a New Generation: Bold, Fresh Flavors for the Modern Pantry
Although entitled "canning", this book 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.
 
Maxwell, Steve and Jennifer MacKenzie
The Complete Root Cellar Book: Building Plans, Uses and 100 Recipes
TX612.V4 M37 2010x
Root cellaring is experiencing a comeback with the sustainability movement and this book with plans will help. You can also check out the classic Root Cellaring by Mike & Nancy Bubel from Rodale Press.
 
Megyesi, Jennifer Lynn
The Joy of Keeping a Root Cellar: Canning, Freezing, Drying, Smoking and Preserving the Harvest
TX612.V4 M38 2010
Here's a complete guide to building and maintaining a root cellar -— even if it's just a dark and cool closet. Jennifer Megyesi (The Joy of Keeping Chickens) and her husband own and run the Fat Rooster Farm in Vermont.
 
Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning
TX601.C64313 2007x
"Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation." This was originally published in France in 1992 as Conserves Naturelles des Quatre Saisons by the gardeners & farmers of Terre Vivante, proponents of organic gardening/living.
 
Preserving Summer's Bounty: A Quick And Easy Guide To Freezing, Canning, Preserving, And Drying What You Grow
Edited By Susan McClure And The Staff Of The Rodale Food Center.
TX612.V4 P74 1995
How to harvest and then freeze, dry, can and otherwise preserve your fruits and vegetables. Much of this book is also available online at Google Books.
 
Sanders, Rachel
The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook
q TX612.J3 S28 2010x
If you are a serious jam maker, you will really enjoy this beautifully photographed jam book. Saunders talks about the technical aspects of jam/jelly/marmalade making and offers some very unique recipes like apricot-rose jam and peach jam with green almonds.
 
Shephard, Sue
Pickled, Potted, And Canned: How The Art And Science Of Food Preserving Changed The World
TX601.S47 2001
If you enjoy food history, pick this one up. Shephard starts with the Egyptians 14,000 years ago!
 
Solomon, Karen
Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It: And Other Cooking Projects
TX652.S5834 2009x
This isn't just jam and pickles, but about making your own bacon, cheese, marshmallows, olives, ketchup, lard...
 
Solomon, Karen
Can It, Bottle It, Smoke It And Other Kitchen Projects
TX603.S649 2011
Have you ever wanted to bottle your own soda? Make your own Worcestershire sauce? Make your own masa for tamales? Solomon tackles some of the foods you normally only buy in stores.
 
 

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