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43 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
Very informative
I've often regretted planting so much of certain foods in the past and wondered what to do with them once harvested. But now armed with this fine manual I can go to war against the hordes of veg that try to overpower my little garden !!
This is the revised and enlarged edition and it happily answers a lot of the questions that I've been too embarrassed to...
Published 10 months ago by Foxylock
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
no better than your standard recipe book
There are only 20 pages of methods such as drying, smoking, fermenting, etc. Few descriptions go into enough detail that I would feel confident about trying them. You still need other books which cover the details of these processes. The rest of the book has recipes but a lot of them again fail to be specific enough for you to actually make a particular jam or chutney...
Published 2 months ago by Pete
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43 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
Very informative, 17 Jan 2009
I've often regretted planting so much of certain foods in the past and wondered what to do with them once harvested. But now armed with this fine manual I can go to war against the hordes of veg that try to overpower my little garden !!
This is the revised and enlarged edition and it happily answers a lot of the questions that I've been too embarrassed to ask. From apples to turnips and everything in between this book reveals the secrets to successful storage and throws in quite a few nice little recipes as well, the mushroom ketchup being my personal favourite. Incidentally there's a recipe here for " spitfire sauce " and I can safely say "ya wont only spit fire ......" Anyway I highly recommend this book to both the seasoned gardener and the enthusiastic amateurs like me.
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62 of 66 people found the following review helpful:
Indispensable guide, 19 Jul 2008
How did I manage without this book? My colleagues at work regularly share our surplus produce from our gardens and allotments. This book has provided much needed inspiration for us. The plum chutney recipe is a real winner! The second edition is much improved with many more recipes.
I shall not be short of ideas this summer!
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42 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
A useful reference book, 10 Jul 2008
This is a very useful reference book and whilst some of the advice might not be practical for some of us, it is nevertheless very interesting.
My copy is very well thumbed!
Even if you do not anticipate a glut of a particular vegetable at the moment, you never know what the next season's weather will bring. Maybe this WILL be a good year for beetroot!
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26 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
Essential Reading, 30 Jul 2008
An essential guide for everyone who is a gardener who wants to preserve their own produce.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Useful and easy to read, 11 Mar 2009
This book has been enjoyable to read, with everything laid out well. Each method of preservation is simply described and then each fruit and vegetable is treated separately and recommendations for which form of preservation to use is given, together with some tasty looking recipes.I have not yet put any of it into practice as my veg plot has only just been dug, but I am sure it will be an integral part of my new life in rural France.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
no better than your standard recipe book, 9 Sep 2009
There are only 20 pages of methods such as drying, smoking, fermenting, etc. Few descriptions go into enough detail that I would feel confident about trying them. You still need other books which cover the details of these processes. The rest of the book has recipes but a lot of them again fail to be specific enough for you to actually make a particular jam or chutney etc. You're better off with a dedicated preserves cookbook.
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10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
All you need to know about preserving., 31 Oct 2008
Good, informative and really helpful book. Packed full of helpful hints and tips. Very useful and I'll be dipping into it time again.
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17 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
really disapointing, 25 Jul 2009
The introduction to this book gives instructions for making your basic jam, soup, wine, pickle, freeze etc. The next section of the book each fruit or veg is listed seperately and the same instruction as in the introduction repeated with very very little variation. The recepies are vauge and uninspiring- for the pickles it is always 'spices of own choice' plus the usual vinigar and sugar, the soups are just potato, onion and 'seasoning to taste'. No detailed technical information is given on any of the techniques at all and some of the information is false for example saying 'you need 60% minimum sugar in all jams'. Worst of all some of the advice makes me think the author has never even followed his own recepies such as the direction to individually top-and-tail currents before makeing jam with them! I would not recomend this book to anyone. In order to end on a posative note one thing the book does do is recomend varieties of fruit and veg for preserving however seed catalouges would be a free and more detailed source for that sort of information.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
How to store your garden produce - A Review, 4 Jul 2009
A very useful book. Covers just about all the fruit and vegetables commonly grown in a UK garden. The book comprehensively details all the storage methods available for each type of produce, and also gives some excellent recipe ideas and suggestions. For anyone who grows their own fruit and vegetables and wants practical, easy to follow advice on how to preserve their bounty when its raining courgettes and apples, this book is one of the best there is.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
how to store your garden produce, 27 Mar 2009
This is a book everyone with a polytunnelor allotment must have everything is covered from jams to pickles.
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