Canning in the Modern Kitchen: More Than 100 Recipes for Canning and Cooking Fruits, Vegetables, and Meats : A Cookbook - Softcover

DeMent, Jamie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1635652030 ISBN 13: 9781635652031

Publisher: Rodale Books, 2018

Synopsis

Finally, a guide to canning for the modern cook! Learn new techniques and try over 100 recipes from classic jams and compotes to unique sauces and pates.

Canning isn’t just about putting food in jars and letting it sit and sit—it’s about sealing in the taste of each season and making food from scratch with more interesting and unique flavors. Farmer, restaurateur, and local food advocate Jamie DeMent offers her recipes and tricks for preserving fresh ingredients and interesting creations. Canning in the Modern Kitchen is ideal whether you’re a novice canner or an experienced cook on the hunt for new recipes and novel techniques.

Her delicious recipes go beyond the obvious jams, marmalades, and jellies—the book includes ideas for sauces and unexpected ways to preserve produce and meat. She covers a variety of techniques including basic water bath canning and oven canning, and lays out the equipment needed for successful canning. And, most importantly, she’ll include detailed safety information to make your canning journey as smooth as possible.

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About the Author

Jamie DeMent owns Coon Rock Farm in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and Piedmont Restaurant in Durham with her husband Richard Holcomb. She spends her days writing about food and farming and planting, harvesting, cooking, and selling products from her farm. Her first cookbook,The Farmhouse Chef: Recipes and Stories from My Carolina Farm was published in 2017 by the University of North Carolina Press. She is also a guest lecturer at UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, and Duke University and teaches cooking classes at schools and restaurants throughout the country.

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Introduction

Today I’m a farmer, restaurateur, and writer. My life revolves around food—growing it, selling it, writing about it. Our farm is an idyllic spot in the heart of North Carolina, on the banks of the Eno River. We raise heirloom produce and heritage breed pasture-raised meats with a wonderful team of folks who work and live on our farm. We work together, live together, and do a lot of eating and celebrating together. The meals we enjoy are built around what we grow and would not be possible without preserving food from one season to another.

Luckily, I was born and raised in North Carolina. My family on both sides is full of strong-minded, colorful women who loved to cook—grandmothers, great-aunts, cousins, friends closer than cousins—all women who showed their love through their cooking. Some of my earliest memories are being in my grandma’s “canning kitchen” three generations deep, tiny baby hands next to arthritic fingers stuffing okra into jars and stirring big, steaming pots of vegetables. There was always a medley of voices of all those women, who taught me not just to cook but to love and nurture. I can stop almost any moment of any day and bring back memories of that warm kitchen and feel loved and protected all over again.

I use techniques from that kitchen in my farm kitchen every year. I make sauces, pestos, compotes, jams, and jellies to carry treasured flavors from season to season. And then I use my preserved food to feed our farm family and friends for the rest of the year.

If you are new to canning and feel anxious about the processes, never fear: Canning in the Modern Kitchen will walk you through the basics and start you with tasty but classic canning treats. If you’re an experienced canner, you’ll find plenty of flavorful recipes that will expand your repertoire and enrich your pantry.

Every recipe has been tested in my kitchen—indeed, many are family favorites that I rely on year after year to add zest and delight to the dinner table. As you’ll see, canning can be fun as well as delicious! So let’s get started by looking at the most common home-canning methods.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1635652030
• ISBN 13: 9781635652031
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224