The Essential Canning Cookbook
Water Bath and Pressure Canning Recipes for Every Season
by Molly Bravo
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Pub Date Aug 05 2025 | Archive Date Aug 19 2025
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Description
Take control of your food and build the pantry your family will love—healthy, homemade, and ready for every season. This is the perfect canning book for advanced canners or beginners with easy-to-follow, preservative-free options that bring you back to the basics of canning.
With The Essential Canning Cookbook, you’ll discover 75+ recipes that preserve the best of every harvest, from classic jams and gourmet preserves to time-saving Meal-in-a-Jar dinners that make weeknight cooking easy.
Chef and slow-living advocate Molly Bravo brings years of preserving experience to this complete guide, offering foolproof basics for beginners and advanced tips for experienced canners and homesteaders.
Whether you're a first-time canner or a seasoned pro, you'll find an easy to learn approach to food preservation that connects you with traditional methods while meeting modern health and sustainability goals. No special skills required—just fresh ingredients, basic tools, and a desire to reduce waste and eat well.
The Essential Canning Cookbook includes:
- Master the Basics: A complete guide to water bath and pressure canning with step-by-step instructions and safety tips, charts for processing times, altitude adjustments, and measurement conversions.
- Troubleshooting Guides: Can with confidence with helpful tips on common issues like cloudy brine, unseal jars, guides for siphoning and more.
- 75+ Chef-Tested Recipes: From jams and pickles to marinara sauce, tangy BBQ sauce, and indulgent desserts like apple pie in a jar.
- Easy Meal-in-a-Jar Recipes: Enjoy complete family-friendly recipes—hearty stews, savory soups, and flavorful chili, ready when life gets busy.
- Preserve Peak Flavor: Never waste seasonal fruits and vegetables again. With pumpkin puree for cozy fall dishes (yes—even your own pumpkin spice latte), raspberry jam for summer sweetness, and zesty orange marmalade for winter mornings every season has a delicious dish ready for you.
- Save Money & Reduce Waste: Turn your green thumb and garden abundance into premium pantry staples at a fraction of store prices.
Reconnect with the rhythm of the kitchen with this practical and inspiring kitchen companion.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781400352012 |
| PRICE | $24.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 208 |
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Featured Reviews
Erica B, Reviewer
This is a fantastic canning cookbook! I learned so much from it and am now genuinely excited for the canning season.
The book’s greatest strength is its brilliant design. The layout is both beautiful and incredibly intuitive, taking what is often presented as dense information—the science, safety procedures, troubleshooting—and making it clear and easily digestible. It is thorough without ever feeling overwhelming.
With a wonderful range of great recipes for all skill levels and gorgeous photography to inspire you, this is a great canning cookbook for every canner's shelf.
Rachel R, Educator
I learned how to make jams and use a water bath canner over a decade ago from a family friend so my understanding of how it all works is very basic. As I am getting older I want to start to expand on what I can make and do with my canner and this book is perfect for that goal. I love that this part understanding how canning works and different methods and part recipes. What I especially appreciated about the recipes is that you do not have to be a master cook/chef in order to do them. So often the recipes for these types of foods involve ingredients that are impossible to find or techniques that require training/experience. These recipes all sound delicious and I think I could actually make them. Two big thumbs up for this cookbook!
Librarian 1055026
This book is really diving into the canning food prepping trend that has really been gaining popularity.
I liked that it's so informative and yet interesting so it makes this book highly essential. The recipes it provides are easy to read and follow for any one's kitchen setting.
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