Stocking Up: How to Preserve the Foods You Grow, Naturally (Deluxe Edition)

Deluxe Edition, Revised and Expanded. Includes over 100 b&w illustrations (drawings and photographs). A modern classic on the techniques of home food preservation -- canning, freezing, and drying. This expanded and revised edition contains new material on making jams and jellies with honey; drying fruits, vegetables meats, and fish; and for homemade pickles and relishes. The dairy section contains more instructions for making a variety of soft and hard cheeses, and the chapter on juices tells how to use a steam juicer to make fruit juices. The endpapers contain metric conversion charts, liquid measure equivalents, and corrections for high altitude canning. Includes plans for storage areas. Index.