Ball Canning Back to Basics: A Foolproof Guide to Canning Jams, Jellies, Pickles, and More Paperback – Illustrated, July 4, 2017

The Ball Canning book is a good resource for canning, with recipes for sauces, jelly, and jams, a list of supplies you need for canning, tools, and much more information. It is a good source for beginners and more experienced canners. That want new recipes.

Did not know where to begin but the bool was very informative on what to do and how to do it.

Makes canning easy! I love all the clear, easy to follow directions. This is the perfect book for someone starting. I also enjoy that every recipe is for water bath canning.Made the peach rosemary jam from the book. It is delicious.

This book tells you everything you need to know about canning. It also has some recipes that I think you will like. I did. I would recommend you purchase it. Easy to read.

Great cook book for canning

The title says it all. No drama canning. If you like to work smart, not hard, this book is yours. Lots of visuals. Some of the tried and true recipes, some different ones. I made the recipe using fresh cranberries in syrup. It's best not to overcrowd the jar with solids, lots of pectin in cranberries, so you want it to be loose, not tight. ( I found out by doing it twice). I have canned up whole cherries, peaches, strawberries, blueberries, etc...but never saw one for whole fresh cranberries. Perfect for fall/winter gift giving that won't break the bank, great to pour on top of ice cream, pound cake, yogurt. There's a simple BBQ sauce using ketchup, not tomatoes as most BBQ canning recipes need, making it very "basic" and easy and fast. I had at least three very large containers of ketchup from the big box store, so I was glad to have a way to use some of it up! I made it and used it w/o canning it to decide if I wanted to can up more of it, and i will next time now that I've sampled it. In fact, you can also use the cranberry recipe right away too w/o canning it, so it's very flexible for now or for storage to eat later on. You can take the BBQ sauce and use "as is" like we did by coating chicken wings and ribs in the smoker. Next time I will gussy it up by adding to it other flavors before using it from the jar, maybe adding some chipotle in adobo.I like lemon anything, there's a lemon jelly in here, easy peasy too. Like I said, back to basics.

I grew up in a canning family and then didn't can for years. This is the best book I've seen for beginning canning. The reason for this, is the recipes are simple to understand and do, plus ALL the recipes in this book are water bath, perfect for the beginner.

Love my Ball Canning Cookbook