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Preserves (2008)

by Pam Corbin(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0747595321 (ISBN13: 9780747595328)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Bloomsbury UK

series

River Cottage Handbooks

review 1: Very thorough and easy to follow instructions as well as lots of information on the 'basics' of making preserves, which are useful to follow even when following recipes from other sources. I've already made a delicious gooseberry and elderflower jam from here, and right at the end is the most genius idea/recipe: 'Souper Mix,' a kind of homemade stock paste that you can adapt to feature flavours of the season.
review 2: This is a pretty little book, saturated with gorgeous images that make you feel as if you, too, are picking berries in a flowering hedgerow in some quaint little town in the English countryside. There's a great variety of recipes, from honeyed hazelnuts to rumtopf to pickled nasturium pods. And you can practically hear the author's British accent... more in the colorful instructions, such as this one from the black current jam, "... remove the twiggy bits..."But having said all that, American canners have been beaten over the head with information about proper canning techniques to avoid dying a horrible death from botulism, and the author's canning techniques are exactly the ones we've been told to avoicd (seal jars with parafin, flip jars upside down to seal them, etc.). So I'd say, enjoy reading this little slice of Great Britain, but employ safe canning techniques. True, my grandmother sealed plenty of canning jars with parafin without accidentally poisoning anyone, but since canning techniques have advanced, why chance it? less

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