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Canning Guide imageThe USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning provides all the information you need to can and store your garden harvests in a safe and healthy manner. This newly updated Guide reflects the most current canning techniques. The book discusses canning equipment, ingredients and procedures and how to use them to achieve safe, high-quality canned products. It includes hundreds of canning recipes for fruits, tomatoes, vegetables, red meats, poultry, sea foods and pickles and relishes.

Home gardens are a great way to produce healthy, nutritious fruits and vegetables. But healthy eating doesn't have to stop when gardens quit producing. With the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning and other food preservation publications now available at The Education Store, you can preserve the healthy, home-grown nutrition you value and make it available all year round.

  • Order Today!196-page, four-color throughout, spiral-bound resource book
    • Guide 1. Principles of Home Canning—40 Pages
    • Glossary of Canning Terms
    • Index of Foods
    • Guide 2. Selecting, Preparing, and Canning Fruit and Fruit Products—32 Pages
      • Fruit Salsas
      • Pie Fillings
    • Guide 3. Selecting, Preparing, and Canning Tomatoes and Tomato products—26 Pages
      • Salsa recipes
    • Canning Guide imageGuide 4. Selecting, Preparing, and Canning Vegetables and Vegetable Products—21 Pages
    • Guide 5. Preparing and Canning Poultry, Red Meats, and Sea foods—15 Pages
    • Guide 6. Preparing and Canning Fermented Foods and Pickled Vegetables—35 Pages
      • Fermented foods
      • Cucumber Pickles
      • Other Vegetable Pickles
      • Pickled Vegetable Relishes
      • Pickled Foods for Special Diets
    • Guide 7. Preparing and Canning Jams and Jellies- 13 Pages
      • Making reduced-sugar fruit spreads
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