Food
Preservation Resources, 2003
1)
Montguides
*Canning Pickles and Sauerkraut. Provides recipes and methods for three kinds of dill
pickles, including reduced-sodium as well as instructions for making
sauerkraut. (1997) MT199607HR Free
Drying Fruits and Vegetables How to preserve fresh
produce by drying (1997) MT198344HR
Free
*Freezing Fruits. Instructions for freezing fruits: apricots,
avocados, apple slices and sauce, berries, cherries, grapes, juice, melons,
peaches, pears, plums and rhubarb. (1996) MT198330HR Free
*Freezing Vegetables. Instructions for freezing everything from asparagus
to zucchini - 30 vegetables in all. (2002) MT198331HR Free
Fruit Leather How to transform fresh produce into a
healthful snack food (1999)
MT198327HR Free
*Home Canning Meat, Poultry and Fish. Provides instructions for safe canning of chicken,
rabbit, ground or chopped meat, strips, cubes or chunks of meat and fish
(including smoked fish). (2003) MT199610HR Free
*Home Canning Pressures and
Processing Times.
Provides time charts and instructions to ensure safety of home-canned foods.
(1997) MT198329HR Free
*Making Jams and Jellies at Home. Details techniques for making jams and jellies.
(1996) MT199609HR Free
Preserving Fish (1983) MT198326HR Free
*Processing Fruit, Tomatoes and Mixtures in a Pressure
Canner. Provides chart
with processing times and pressures for various fruits and tomato products.
Stresses importance of elevation in determining pressures. (Reprinted 2002)
MT198803HR Free
Field Dress Big Game Animals
Field
Care of Harvested Big Game. A must for hunters! How to properly dress
big game animals in the field. Several illustrations.
* underline
indicates links to MSU Extension website

2) USDA
Complete Guide to Home Canning
http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/publications/publicationsusda.html
-a.lso available from the Amazon.com website- http://www.amazon.com
Complete
Guide to Home Canning and Preserving, 2nd revised edition, 163 pp
Dover Publications, ISBN: 0486409317, September 1999
3) Add a Little Spice (& Herbs)
to your life! – University of Nebraska
3)
http://www.homefoodpreservation.com/
http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/index.html
Educator
Section includes:
*
Dial and gauge testing and pressure canner inspection form
*
Multimedia- videos, slide shows, graphics galleries, tutorials
4) Resources for Preserving
http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/publications/nchfp/factsheets.html
5) Ball Blue Book of Preserving, soft cover, 120 pp, $4.95
available
at http://www.homecanning.com/
Ball
Canning Hotline: 1- 800-240-3340
6) Food Preservation and Safety, Principles and
Practice, 1st Ed.
VanGard,
S., Woodburn, M. (1994).
7) Critical Review of Home Preservation Literature and
Current Research
http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/publications/usda/review/report.html

Information provided by Lynn C. Paul, EdD, RD, MSU
Extension Food and Nutrition Specialist
August, 2003