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Canning & Preserving Books

Good home preserving starts with good information. These books focus on tested methods, clear explanations, and recipes that actually work in a home kitchen. They’re the references you’d want to reach for when you need reliable guidance, not guesswork.

Mes Confitures: The Jams and Jellies of Christine Ferber

Amazon Book: Mes Confitures: The Jams and Jellies of Christine Ferber

Chefs around the world have long prized the rare and delicious creations of France’s Christine Ferber, an internationally renowned master pâtissière. Now, for the first time, English-language audiences can access her artistry with this French bestseller. Written in a clear, accessible style, Mes Confitures brings handmade jams to life for home cooks and professional chefs alike.

The Amish Canning Cookbook: Plain and Simple Living at Its Homemade Best

Year-Round Without Waste, Fear or Modern Equipment. What if stores never reopened? While neighbors panic and ration, you calmly open your basement- 200+ jars of preserved food. A full year of meals. No electricity needed. No dependency. Just prepared.

Canning & Preserving Cookbook for Beginners: Your 360° Guide for All Seasons

This beginner-friendly, step-by-step guide shows you how to safely preserve your favorite fruits, vegetables, soups, sauces, jams, and more using water bath and pressure canning, without confusion or guesswork.

Fifty Shades of Chicken: A Parody in a Cookbook

Not a canning book, but seriously, how could you resist Dripping Thighs, Sticky Chicken Fingers, Bacon-Bound Wings, Holy Hell Wings, and all the rest?

The Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving

This is one of the definitive guides for canning, featuring over 400 recipes for preserving everything from fruits and vegetables to jams, jellies, and salsas from one of the most trusted brands in the world of canning

À la Mère de Famille

This is one of the most beautiful cookbooks you’ve ever seen. Inside are recipes of 95 recipes for classic confections –jams, syrups, pastries, cookies, ice creams and must more.

The Complete Guide to Home Canning

An official U.S. Department of Agriculture publication, this newly revised and updated guide offers food shoppers a practical, easy-to-follow alternative to high-priced, overprocessed foods. Virtually everything you need to know about home canning is here.

Canning Jars & Essential Canning Tools

You don’t need every gadget on the market to preserve food well, but a handful of solid tools can make canning and fermenting safer, easier, and far more enjoyable. From dependable jars and lids to steam canners, these are the essentials that earn their spot in our drawers and get used in our kitchen every season, not just once.

Ceramic HomeBuddy Fermentation Crock with Weights and Fermenting Crock Lid – Onggi Kimchi Container, Pickling or Sourdough Crock

Made of natural top-quality food-grade double-glazed ceramic, this sturdy vegetable crock won’t absorb unwanted smells or tastes. Use it as a sauerkraut kit, onggi kimchi pot, or make fruit kombucha!

Masontops Complete Mason Jar Fermentation Kit – Pickle Kit, Sauerkraut Making Kit Kimchi Container – Fermentation Airlock Lids for Mason Jars, Weights & Tamper

This home fermentation kit converts jars into fermenters for making nutritious homemade sauerkraut, kimchi, pickles, hot sauce and more!

Ceramic Fermentation Crock – with Lid, Weights & Pounder for Pickling Cabbage Kimchi Vegetables

This fermentation crock is a natural and easy way to make sauerkraut, kimchi, pickles, and more at home. With a 1/2-gallon capacity, it can hold up to 3.2lb of vegetables, making it perfect for small batches.

Glass Fermentation Weights with Easy Grip Handle for Large Wide Mouth Mason Jars

Fermentation lid made from clear glass, the same glass used in the mason jars. They are free from lead and safe to use in your sauerkraut and kimchi.

Granit Ware Waterbath canner

We are not fans of waterbath canning. We prefer steam canning, BUT, if you must do waterbath canning, pick the best. This is the original, made in America graniteware waterbath canner! The right equipment is essential to ensure a quality product and Granite Ware offers all the basics for blanching produce for the freezer or for cold pack canning . A porcelain surface with durable steel core provides great heat distribution, saving time and energy.  

❤️Kitchen Crop Stainless Steel Steam Canner (also branded as VKP)

This canner is why we enjoy canning. It makes the process so much easier. This canner uses 80% less water than traditional water bath canning. Heat-up times are also much quicker than traditional water bath canning. It cuts preheating time by 50% compared to water bath canning. Lightweight design with lower water capacity requirements make this the fastest canning method.

Ball EasyCanner Electric Water Bath Canner, 21-Quart Capacity, Automated Heating, Multicooker & Steamer Functionality

If Lamborghini made canners, this would be it! Press-and-forget tech, automated preheating, and built-in heat sensors, check, check, check. Even better, it doubles as a canner and a multicooker/ steamer. How cool is that?

WECK Jars

💖💞💞We love, LOVE WECK jars. Made in Germany from thick, durable, heat-resistant glass, they’re microwave- and dishwasher-safe. Their iconic design are as beautiful as they are functional. Every part is reusable (no tossing lids!), making them true multitaskers: perfect for food storage, sourdough starters, and even candle making.

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