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The pantry that feeds your family for a year: 60+ recipes for canning, drying, curing and fermenting
- 9 chaptersin the book
- 63 topicsin the book
Sections: canning, drying, curing, smoking, storage.
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Contents63
01Safety First7
- Six rules to learn before you start
- Clean jars and the water bath
- Checking a jar: keep or throw out
- Pressure canning: the pressure canner
- The ABC of drying
- Salt as a preservative
- Mushrooms: safe foraging and sorting
02Tomatoes, Peppers and Hot Sauces6
- Tomato sauce for the pantry
- Tomatoes, whole and in pieces
- Sun-dried tomatoes
- Roasted peppers and lecho
- Adjika, ketchup and hot sauces
- Small onions and hot peppers in brine
03The Garden in a Jar and a Crock7
- Pickled eggplant and mixed vegetables
- Cucumbers: in the jar and from the crock
- Sauerkraut for the long term
- Kimchi: spicy fermented cabbage
- Zucchini “caviar”
- Freezer soup base (zazharka)
- Beans and peas in jars
04The Orchard: Fruit, Berries and Citrus9
- Peaches and pears in syrup
- Fruit compotes for winter
- Juice: steam juicer and pasteurizing
- Dried apples and pears
- Dried apricots and peaches
- Banana, fruit slices and homemade raisins
- Fruit leather (pastila) rolls
- Pickled apples in a jar
- Salt-preserved lemons
05Meat, Fish and Salo9
- Chicken escabeche
- Canned meat in jars (tushonka)
- Meat in fat and homemade lard
- Dry curing and brines for meat
- Cured belly and coppa
- Jerky and pemmican
- Salted dried fish
- A smoker from a barrel
- Cured pork fat (salo): dry-salted and brined
06Dairy, Eggs and Drinks6
- Eggs without a refrigerator
- Ghee (clarified butter)
- Cheese in oil
- Brined olives
- Kvass from rye bread
- Kombucha
07Mushrooms and Herbs7
- Salted and pickled mushrooms
- Dried mushrooms and mushroom powder
- Herbs in bunches
- Oven and solar dryer
- Dried vegetables and vegetable powder
- Soup in a jar
- Storing dried food
08Stockpile and Storage8
- A one-month stockpile
- Rotating the stock
- Grains and flour without pests
- Shelf life
- Root vegetables and fresh produce
- The freezer as a pantry
- Bulk buying without waste
- Nuts and seeds: storage without rancidity
09The Zero-Waste Kitchen4
- A weekly menu and cooking ahead
- Broth from bones and scraps
- Bread and leftovers into a new dish
- A menu from one pantry
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