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Tart And Sweet: 101 Canning And Pickling Recipes For The Modern Kitchen (2011)

by Kelly Geary(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1605293822 (ISBN13: 9781605293820)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Rodale Books

review 1: Love MOST of the tart recipes in this book. That would put it at a 4.Hate having to get specialty stuff that is just not accessible to everyday folks. Pomona's Universal Pectin is outrageously expensive, I can get it slightly cheaper (because it isn't a huge bulk purchase) online. But a good number of the sweet recipes require it and if you are a newbie to canning, figuring out the what and the when of alternative pectins makes you slightly crazy and paranoid about who you just might kill with your wares.That said, I DO love that there is a book out there for low sugar folks. On the diabetic front, I could totally be down with that. Same with on the flavor front.
review 2: Shhh! Word on the street is that one of the authors is a terrible CSA member (she refu... moresed to do volunteer shifts! Lame!). I'm not allowed to even bring this book over to certain friend's houses, which is why I didn't get a chance to try too many of the recipes. Okay that being said, the one recipe we tried in this book- Carrot Habanero Hot Sauce is one of the best hot sauces we have ever made. We've already gone through one jar in a week and we are the type of people who go very slowly through condiments. The hot sauce tastes great with everything! I really like how this book is organized by season and that many of the canning recipes also include ideas for how to use your compotes and jams. By the way, I love it when canning books include that kind of information because I am really uncreative with ideas for using my canned goods. Case in point: I still have 4 jars of pickled blueberries from last year. Besides adding them to the occasional cocktail, I have no idea what to do with them. So I appreciate that this book includes that information. Another cool thing is the "15 Tasty Uses for Leftover Pickle Brine" I hate throwing away pickle brine! I usually keep it in my fridge for the next pickle batch, but this book offers some great suggestions for other ways to use them (besides picklebacks). Another section I thought was pretty handy is the canning troubleshooting chapter; few canning books seem to deal with the many issues that pop up- like 'my jar didn't seal' and 'my jam didn't set'. The "Canning Conondrums" chapter deals with all the strange and scary things that can happen when canning.Okay the downsides- I'm not sure which region this book is geared towards, but since the authors are from the Northeast, I would assume an area where blood oranges, grapefruits and kumquats do not grow. In fact, about half the recipes in here are pretty useless to much of the country unless you want to can produce from the grocery store- and doesn't that sort-of defeat the point? Minus one star.In conclusion, this book is pretty good and I will probably check it out of the library again in the near future. Minus one extra star for the fact that I'll have to keep it hidden from everyone I know, but otherwise a decent canning book. less

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