Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving: 400 Delicious and Creative Recipes for Today Hardcover – Illustrated, 1 April 2006

Impressive book which lays flat when opened - great when using it in the kitchen. Lots of informative details on the processes and interesting recipes. It’s an American book but I didn’t find this an issue.

Detailed recipes and instructions for safe and tasty preserves. Thorough canning instructions and explaination of food safety.

Beautifully put together ! a very informative, clear , safe approach with step by step instructions to follow on over 400 recipes for canning , water bathing , fermenting or pickling all your favourite recipes ..everyone’s larder will be a thing of beauty with colourful preserves and pickles by following mouthwatering recipes from this beautiful book !I can’t wait to get started ! It contains all you need to have and know . As well as a problem solver when things didn’t go to plan !a must have for beginners and Advanced preservers alike , especially if you have a big yield from growing you own produce in your garden or allotment , no more waste , you will be eating you home grown bounty all through the year !

It is a very good book, it contains a lot of recipes...recipes that you would not imagine making...or contemplating...I was pleasantly surprised.I am very grateful for the content of the book. I think the book is amazing...The recipes have measurements both in metric and imperial which was important to me.I did give it 5 stars...and that is very rare coming from me, I am a very precise and just person (no grey areas).The only...not criticism, but observation or preference I would have is that I .would have liked to have a picture for each recipe so I can visualise the end result and what I am aspiring to. I do understand that this would mean a book of probably 800 pages. The book has 400 recipes and 448 pages in total. There are some pictures, but not for each recipe.I personally do not like culinary books which do not have a picture for each recipe. It is my preference to have a picture agreed by the writer / the professional, so I know what the finished product should look like.

Lovely puctures and good explanations

This is the mother ship of canning food won’t need anything else

Great book for beginners, easy to understand and great recipes, so far I've preserverd my greenhouse tomatoes and pears out of my garden

Fab book! Use it like a canning bible. Great recipes and if you follow the instructions you know they’re safe. Great detail about canning in general and packed with recipes.