Want to learn more about canning than what’s offered here on this website? Here are some further resources to get you going.
The USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning – Revised in 2006, this is the official canning bible. If you want to know the how and why behind every step of canning, start here.
Cooperative Extension Service – Your local extension service is one of your best resources for hands-on canning classes and information. This link will take you to the central clearing house that will allow you to find your closest extension (they are typically associated with your state landgrant university).
Preserving Food at Home: A Self Study – Want to learn about canning in a more formal setting? The University of Georgia offers an online, self guided course.
PickYourOwn.org – This site offers resources on finding u-pick farms and then how to can the produce you pick. It’s sort of a clunky site, looks-wise, but has a wealth of handy information (and many of the recipe pages include helpful pictures).
FreshPreserving.com – The official canning site from the makers of Ball and Kerr jars.
Weck Jars – Interested in canning in Weck jars? Make sure to thoroughly read their canning safety guidelines.
Preserving Tomatoes – There’s a great PDF on this site that puts everything you need to know about preserving tomatoes in a single, handy chart.
Here’s a list of some of my favorite canning books:
- Put ’em Up!: A Comprehensive Home Preserving Guide for the Creative Cook, from Drying and Freezing to Canning and Pickling, by Sherri Brooks Vinton
- Canning for a New Generation: Bold, Fresh Flavors for the Modern Pantry
, by Liana Krisoff - The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving: Over 300 Recipes to Use Year-Round, by Ellie Topp and Margaret Howard
- Tart and Sweet: 101 Canning and Pickling Recipes for the Modern Kitchen, by Kelly Geary and Jessie Knadler
- Homemade Living: Canning & Preserving with Ashley English: All You Need to Know to Make Jams, Jellies, Pickles, Chutneys & More, by Ashley English
- The Joy of Pickling: 250 Flavor-Packed Recipes for Vegetables and More from Garden or Market (Revised Edition), by Linda Ziedrich
- The Joy of Jams, Jellies, and Other Sweet Preserves: 200 Classic and Contemporary Recipes Showcasing the Fabulous Flavors of Fresh Fruits, by Linda Ziedrich
- Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods, by Sandor Katz
- Putting Up: A Year-Round Guide to Canning in the Southern Tradition and Putting Up More: A guide to canning jams, relishes, chutneys, pickles, sauces, and salsas by Stephen Palmer Dowdney
- Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It: And Other Cooking Projects and Can It, Bottle It, Smoke It: And Other Kitchen Projects by Karen Solomon
- Saving the Seasons: How to Can, Freeze, or Dry Almost Anything by Mary Clemens Meyer and Susanna Meyer
, by Liana Krisoff
, by Ellie Topp and Margaret Howard
, by Kelly Geary and Jessie Knadler
, by Ashley English
, by Linda Ziedrich
, by Linda Ziedrich
, by Sandor Katz
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by Stephen Palmer Dowdney
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by Karen Solomon
by Mary Clemens Meyer and Susanna Meyer