Clearly Delicious: An Illustrated Guide to Preserving , Pickling & Bottling

Offers recipes and step-by-step instructions for making jams, pickles, chutneys, flavored oils and vinegars, and herb and spice blends

This beautifully illustrated guide to preserving jams and relishes, flavored wines, and vinegars and oils also covers the basics of sterilizing, sealing, and storing containers. A recipe for marmalade, for instance, is depicted through step-by-step instructional color photographs showing stages of preparation and cooking. Then eight additional recipes follow--essentially variations on the same theme. A final chapter offers ideas for decorating bottles and jars to be given as gifts. Alice Joyce

Here is another beautiful book from the author of the invaluable Encyclopedia of Herbs, Spices & Flavorings (LJ 11/15/92). Ortiz includes not only jams, chutneys, and pickles but also more unusual preserves such as flavored oils and vinegars. There is also a section on "finishing touches," with ideas for packaging and decorating. The gorgeous photographs illustrate both techniques and the results. A nice complement to Jeanne Lesem's Preserving Today (LJ
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