One of the things I love most about the fact that canning and home food preservation is gaining popularity is how it’s meant an increase in beautifully designed, thoughtfully written and downright inspirational books on the subject.
Take, for instances, Put ‘em Up!
I’m particularly smitten with the line drawings they’ve used in place of illustrative photographs. Though I like a pretty food image as much as the next girl, I could see how they could be distracting when your primary goal is to convey deeply useful information in a crisp and intelligible manner.
This isn’t to say that there aren’t any photos in the book. You’ll find pages like this at the front of each section, each featuring a number of quirky and colorful examples of what you could make, should you choose to pick up a copy.
Don’t you just love this two-page spread on how to make fermented pickles! It’s just so helpful! As you can tell, I have something of a crush on this book. Call it my canning companion of the moment.
If you’re thinking that you’d like to make a copy of this book yours, leave a comment on this post. Tell me about your favorite pickle and do it before Tuesday, July 20th at 11:59 p.m. (I’ll be closing the comments at that time). I have two copies of this book to give away (provided by the publisher), so your chances to win are even greater than normal (and, if you don’t win, I’d still recommend picking up a copy. It’s less than $14 on Amazon
Let the giveaway begin!
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Well currently I have been taking the Hot N Spicy Tabasco pickles, (48 oz), throwing away the vinegar, cutting up the whole pickles, add 2 cups (or so) of sugar, and you have the MOST amazing easy quick tasty sweet-savory pickles!
I’m a big fan of pickled onions. Especially the really, really strong little brown ones. Yum.
Pickled beets are delicious and beautiful. I love the pop of color they add to my pantry!
I love bread and butter pickles to pile on top of veggie burgers… or a good kosher dill to crunch on after a summer meal. Mmm, pickles!
’tis the season to pickle peaches! when i was a kid, my parents and i came upon a windfall (literally) of peaches in an abandoned orchard. we studded them with cloves and put them up in a sweet vinegar brine, and man oh man were they good that winter.
dilly beans are hands down my favorite pickle.
Just plain old kosher dills. The basics are best.
bread & butter pickles!
I love bread and butter pickles in the winter. I just made my first batch of half sours and I am really enjoying those!
I’d love to start my canning adventures with this book!
My (current) FAVORITE pickle is Sun Pickles found at Food.com. I learned how to make them last year. They are cold packed in a dill brine, then set in the sun. They got rave reviews, and the recipe is an old-country classic.
I never did like pickles, except pickled onions, but I really want to learn to! I’m not sure if it’s the cucumbers (don’t like them in most contexts) or the pickling, but this distaste is limiting my canning and I cannot let that stand. There’s a recipe for pickled cherries (from a can jam) over at leenaeats.com that’ll sure make a girl want to like them.
I would love to recieve that book. You are so nice to do this giveaway. I want to let you know that I really enjoy your blog.
Take Care,
Tina Kay
My favorite pickle is asparagus, which I did for the first time this year. YUM
Love garlic dills, but tried lacto-fermented last year, and they were great! This year I will do both, along with dilly beans. Hope to win!
Dill pickles with lots of garlic are my favorites. I love pickles. I used to get caught…and get in trouble when I was younger for drinking pickle juice.
this book looks beautiful AND useful, can’t wait to take a look. my favourite pickles are the ones made by my grandmother. my grandfather is the gardener… he grows the crunchiest, most delicious lebanese cucumbers which my grandmother then lovingly pickles (of the dill variety).
My favorites are South Indian fermented chilli lime pickles, but I’m also partial to a good half sour cucumber pickle.
i love traditionally fermented dill cuke pickles.
Getting back into canning after a long absence. Would LOVE to own this book!!!
I made bread and butter pickles and dilled green beans this Saturday
Oh wow… I’d certainly love to have this book. Being so new in canning and preserving, it would be a great help
Oops… forgot to mention my fav pickles. Do erase the previous comment then.
My fav pickles are gherkins. I’d certainly love to have this book. Being so new in canning and preserving, it would be a great help
Oh wow! I love crispy dills. I’ve yet to attempt making my own,but soon. . . !
I love dills pickles. Although, I did make sweet pickles and they were also really good.
As lame as it is, my favorite pickle is the Claussen kosher dill spear. I’ve been searching for two years now to find just the right replacement recipe — and I’m still looking! I need that crispy crunch and perfect flavor!
In truth, I cannot stand cucumber pickles, but I dared myself to try pickled asparagus and I fell in love!! Yum!! I am just getting into canning and would love this book!
My favorite pickle is the sweet relish my husband makes from the Ball Blue Book. He makes it chunky, with lots of sweet red peppers. It’s the secret to my potato salad, and is wonderful on hot dogs.
My favorite pickle of late is pickled grapes, featured at my local bar. So good on a hot day! I’d love to learn how to make for myself!
My favorite pickle has to be pickled okra. I made so much of that last year – I haven’t had a chance yet this year but I’m sure I will soon!
My favorite pickle is this zucchini dill pickle that my boyfriend’s grandma makes. It was crisp and very dilly. I think it’s better than a cucumber dill pickle. And I’m so making it this year!
Bread and Butter Radishes…the radishes dye the brine light pink which perfectly compliments the tasty, yellow mustard seeds
Dilly Beans – my mouth waters just thinking about them!
I’m not much of a pickler, but quick-pickled ginger is pretty awesome for homemade sushi.
This book looks amazing! I am attempting to master the art of pickle making. (and jam, jelly and salsa making, too) This would help.
Yummmm!! I love bread-n-butter pickles, any kind, any place.
I haven’t made my own pickles yet. But the some of the best I remember trying were bread and butter pickles from a friend.
My favorite pickled item that I have made is a garlicky-bread-and-butter asparagus. Sounds strange, but they are amazing.
For pickles not made by myself (yet), the half-sour always wins
I love pickles, it runs in the family. The first food my son ate was a pickle… but… I have yet to make the perfect pickle!
Ooooh, a new canning book. It’s about preserving and it’s a book, two of my favorite things.
I could always use more information about canning. It is my favorite thing!
Wow! This looks like a fantastic resource! I’m new to canning so I can see this coming in handy:)
I love all these fun summer giveaways – and I’m glad my fun summer get-away didn’t mean missing the deadline!
I love all things dill pickle…I don’t love sweet or bread and butter pickles, or at least, I’ve yet to find the right one.
last night I was just telling a friend about how reading this blog makes me want to make dilly beans.
I love the sweet pickles my grandmother brings to every Christmas or Thanksgiving get together. I wish I could tell you more about what kind they are, but sadly I am a novice at canning and hope this book can help!
My friend Kris turned me on to her grandmother Palmina’s refrigerator pickles. I can make them myself so I guess they’re my favorite. But I also like the pickled cabbage you get in Vietnamese and Thai restaurants. Sweet and savory.
I’m a beginner canner and your blog is one of the best ones out there! Thanks a bunch for all your tips and tricks. I’d love to be included in the drawing for the book too.
I adore dilly beans! Are those considered pickled? I ate an entire can at the beginning of summer. Yum!
I love pickled okra. We make it every year with homegrown okra.
My favorite pickle is a bread and butter jalepeno!! So good!
I’m only recently learning to like cucumbers, but I love pickled everything else! Especially spicy pickled carrots, and yummy pickled zucchini.