Preserving Everything by Leda Meredith

Amazon Synopsis:

The ultimate guide to putting up food.

How many ways can you preserve a strawberry? You can freeze it, dry it, pickle it, or can it. Milk gets cultured, or fermented, and is preserved as cheese or yogurt. Fish can be smoked, salted, dehydrated, and preserved in oil. Pork becomes jerky. Cucumbers become pickles. There is no end to the magic of food preservation, and in Preserving Everything, Leda Meredith leads readers—both newbies and old hands—in every sort of preservation technique imaginable.

Review:

I read this book cover to cover. At first I thought it would be impossible to include every way to preserve in one book. I was amazingly surprised .
The Author divides the ways to preserve one for each way, from dehydrating to canning to yogurts & cheese and everything in between. Each chapter includes guidelines that must be met insure food safety. It is these guidelines that the author makes the reader aware and comfortable to process anything as long as follow the guidelines. The author also includes recipes that pertain to the chapter giving the reader even more confidence to tackle preserving on their own.
I have found, being very close to harvest seasons, that I have been using this as my preserving bible, as a reference as it may, for all my preserving needs.