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Preserving books

Books on canning, pickling and fermenting.

2 gift ideas here, each with a real shop for your country where we've found one.

A beginner's canning book

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Diane Devereaux's guide starts with the basic rules of safe preserving, then has 90 step-by-step recipes, from jam to pickled beans. A good pairing with a canning kit or jars.

A pickling and fermenting book

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Recipes for turning a glut of vegetables into pickles, sauerkraut, kimchi and chutney. Pairs well with a fermenting kit.