Home Pantry

Have you had a bumper crop of fruit, vegetables, and herbs from your garden this year, or perhaps brought back a huge basket of mushrooms from the forest and need to process it all quickly? This practical guide to home preserving will not only provide you with valuable information on the basic methods of food preservation (freezing, drying, canning, salting, fermenting), but will also offer you almost 100 delicious recipes, including both classic Czech preserves and procedures inspired by foreign cuisines. It also includes a practical ten-step guide to successful home preserving. • 5 preservation techniques (freezing, drying, canning, salting, fermenting) • delicious recipes for preserving 17 types of fruit, 12 types of vegetables, 9 types of herbs and mushrooms • 10 practical tips for successful and safe home preserving