Put a Lid on It!: Small-Batch Preserving for Every Season

Put a Lid on It! uncomplicates home preserving and shows and shows you how to make the most of fruits and vegetables all year 'round.

Inside are easy recipes for jams, jellies, and marmalades including Peach Pear Jam with Lime, Cherry Orange Freezer Jam, Microwave Winter Pear Amaretto Jam, Tangerine Lemon Jelly, Sparkling Sweet Pepper Jelly, Mango Marmalade, and Lemon Ginger Zucchini Marmalade.

There is also a dazzling array of fruit butters, curds, conserves, pickles, relishes, salsas, chutneys, dips, pestos, sauces, specialty vinegars and oils, and low-sugar sweet spreads!

And once you've bottled and put a lid on it, the authors encourage you to take the lid off and use these preserves in delicious recipes such as Spiced Plum Butter Bran Muffins, Hot Melted Brie with Chutney, Peach and Jam Upside Down Cake, and Quick Jam Apple Crisp.

Ellie Topp, food consultant to Life Network's Put a Lid on It!, is a certified culinary professional and a professional home economist with a graduate degree in experimental foods. She is the author of Feasts for Families and Meals, Microwave Style, and she co-authored Healthy Home Cooking with Margaret Howard.

Margaret Howard is a registered dietitian, a professional home economist, and a food and nutrition consultant to government and industry. She has co-authored eight cookbooks including Choice Menus, More Choice Menus, Eat Well Live Well, The Great California Lifestyle Cookbook and Healthy Home Cooking.