Monday
Sep272010
Put 'em Up book giveaway
Let’s start this giveaway with a success story. I entered and then proceeded to win Tigress’ latest giveaway. I fell in love with the book she sent me in the mail (with her own money to boot).
Sherri Brooks Vinton’s book, Put ‘em Up, pretty much rocks. So, I’m giving [another copy, thanks to her publisher] to you! (I’m definitely keeping my prize.)
Here’s why I think you should own this book:
- It’s an excellent resource for both established and newbie canners and home-preservers
- It covers a lot of territory beyond just canning jars and sealing things for shelf storage, like drying, infusing, fridge pickling, fermenting and freezing (and most recipes have multiple options for how you might store the homemade yummies)
- I especially like the ‘Working in Groups’ section, a helpful primer on hosting a canning party, where it gives you a detailed list of tasks and how many people could be doing them.
- She has illustrations of many of the canning/preserving projects I mention in my book (but don’t have the space to illustrate)!
- There are a ton of recipes for using up seasonal foods
Enter by leaving a comment on this post telling me about an area of home food preservation that intrigues you (or eludes you).
Deadline is Thursday, October 14 at midnight. Good luck!
Update on Friday, October 15, 2010 at 3:52PM by
Kate
Kate
Lucky number 78! Jessi is our winner. Thanks everyone for entering! Happy preserving.
tagged Cookbooks, Food Preservation, Giveaways
Cookbooks, Food Preservation, Giveaways
Reader Comments (115)
hi there -- i'd love to win this book -- i've been getting into a bit more canning and pickling over the last year, but i'm interested to learn more about what makes a good "set" for a jelly/jam, and i'm interested to expand my fermenting beyond pickles and sauerkraut!
am interested in learning dehydration techniques my first attempts have hot really been successful
OHHHHHHHHHH this looks like a must have book for my kitchen!!!!!
I think I may have given up on jellies; I just can never get the fruit set right. Fruit butters are more my style.
I would LOVE to try my hand at sauerkraut!!!
You know, I've never dried a thing! I think that's my final frontier. I would love to have this book for that and many other reasons, having paged through it at the store and known that I want it and can't buy it! Me! Me! oh, random number generator!
this was my first summer canning! i have loved it and am very intrigued by pressure canning! i am asking for a pressure canner for christmas and look forward to being able to preserve even more next year!
First, this looks like a great book. I am very new to canning and while I find canning fun and addicting, I'm mostly interested in learning how to preserve my food to use it until the following year's garden. Drying and freezing would be a great asset to my kitchen. And hubby would love to learn about fermentation, he has been brewing beer for a while now, and he's amazed by the fermentation process. Nice looking cover on the book, it really makes you want to preserve your food (even though the end result never looks like the picture!)
I want to try fermenting! I'm worried, though, that the fruit flies will think I'm trying to make them feel welcome.
I just started canning this year! I've already got a dehydrator on my christmas list and hope to learn more about that in the next year:)
I'm intrigued by fermenting. I've never (intentionally) fermented anything, and I think I'd like to try.
Also, this year I plan to make marmalade for the first time, which isn't a new technique per se, but the peeling of rind always seems so intimidating (don't ask me why...)
Brand new to canning this season and I must say I am addicted!!! I would love to get into canning more things but need to invest in a pressure canner. Pretty excited about trying all the possibilities. If I understand what I've read correctly, I can put up just abut everything but dense foods like squash. Exciting!! Also going to try making some of my own pectin this week. Every single time I can its so exciting to see what comes out. :)
I love making jam! I've dried foods in the past and it was okay and I've tried refrigerator pickles and they were good, but jam is a whole different ball game. Love the fresh 'real' taste of it, even after months in the pantry. Really love the look on people's faces when a give them a jar as a gift.
My pepper plants are growing out of control and I have no idea what to do with them! I've always been intrigued by pepper jellies...
I've flipped through this book and love it!
I'd love to see more posts about lower sugar jams and jellies--I'm always trying to find a recipe to make one that isn't so sugar-packed.
I'm ready to try my hand at fermenting and this book looks awesome. Thanks for the giveaway!
What an awesome giveaway! I have been eyeing up this book for ages. Canning soups eludes me. I don't know why, since I've canned jams and make loads of fermented goodies and dry foods. But for some reason, the idea of canning soups seems awfully mysterious. I hope I win!!! :) xoxo Kim | http://www.affairsofliving.com
I'd really like to try dehydrating! I've been eyeing this book since it was published and would love to have it!
I would like this book. As much as I enjoy pickling, I would like to try other ways of food preservation of vegetables!
I'm really interested in learning about canning - we just started a garden this summer, but I was totally unprepared to preserve our harvest and ended up giving a ton of food away. I'd love to be able to keep it and enjoy it through the winter!
ahhhh want want want! I think what I'm most intrigued by is drying -- I've done a little bit of slow oven-roasting tomatoes, but I never know when they're done, and keep them in the fridge just to be safe. I love the idea of having some awesome dried items all lined up in the pantry.
Jellies are always so tricky for me. I just can't seem to get them to set correctly... Hopefully I can get my grandmother to sit down with me and walk me through it the next time I am home.
I'm so excited about this giveaway! I never win these things, but I actually like the questions asked - they make you think about things you've never really thought about before.
The area of food preservation that intrigues/eludes me is drying. I could use a little more help with freezing and canning, but drying is where I want to go next. I get fresh figs from my Nonna in the late summer and fall, but I don't really like them (gasp! I know, I'm nuts). I like dried figs, though, in granola bars and stuff, and it would be awesome to me to be able to dry her figs and use them for stuff like granola bars. When I looked it up online it just seemed confusing and daunting and the website (a .edu site) actually made it sound super dangerous too, so I got scared and never did it :(
I haven't tried any of these - but I'm becoming more frugal and practical as I get older, so I am interested in starting and found your blog while searching for information on canning and food preservation.
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I would like to use my dehydrator better, but really I would like to not be afraid of the pressure canner.
I would definitely use this book. This year my family signed up for a local CSA and - horrors - all of the anti-vegetable family members (that is: everyone but myself) balked. I filled our small freezer rather quickly and then moved on to basic pickling (beans, cukes), and have tried my hand at putting up everything from diced beets to peach chutney to whole and sauced tomatoes. Fermenting would be a lot of fun to figure out, and well, the title of the book is tremendously appealing to me, as is. Thanks for the chance!
I am starting to work on fermentation but it seems tricky. And drying. Other methods of preserving without canning. I love that there is a "Working in Groups" section!