Sweet Harvest: Water-Bath Canning Cookbook

Turn your summer garden into shelf-stable gold. Sweet Harvest is the companion to our pressure-canning book Meals in a Jar — this time it's all water-bath canning: the jams, jellies, pickles, relishes, and tomatoes that make a pantry worth bragging about. Inside you'll find 16 tested recipes, every one from the USDA and the National Center for Home Food Preservation — never a guess, never a blog shortcut: jams, jellies & fruit butters (strawberry jam, grape jelly, blackberry jam, old-fashioned blackberry jelly no pectin, apple butter, applesauce, canned pears); pickles & relishes (quick fresh-pack dill pickles, bread-and-butter pickles, sweet pickle relish, spiced pickled beets, sweet pepper relish); tomatoes (crushed tomatoes, whole or halved tomatoes, standard tomato sauce, and tested Choice Salsa with exact safety ratios). You also get a complete water-bath canner walkthrough, headspace rules, the tomato acid rule, an altitude chart with minute-by-minute adjustments, and a quick-reference processing chart.