Beyond Canning: New Techniques, Ingredients, and Flavors to Preserve, Pickle, and Ferment Like Never Before

by Autumn Giles

"This is a book that caters to the real-life canner in all of us." - John Becker and Megan Scott, Joy of Cooking editorial team

If you're looking for Hot & Sour Cherry preserves, Old Bay Pickled Cauliflower, or Gochugaru Preserved Lemons, you've come to the right place! In Beyond Canning, Autumn Giles has packed the pages with creative preserved foods and preserving techniques. You'll use herb-infused vinegar to make a shrub, explore the science of maceration for the sake of better preserves, step up to the air-locked mason jar for worry-free ferments, master simple ratios for inventing your own small-batch creations, and much more. The 70 recipes feature flavors and textures that are equally Rangpur Lime Marmalade, Lavender Apple Butter, Raspberry-Rhubarb Sauce, Quick Peach-Bourbon Jam, Hibiscus Lime Jelly, Kombu Dashi Pickled Shitake Mushrooms, Curried Orange Pickle, Maple-Plum Mostarda, Pickled Figs with Port & Black Pepper, Raspberry & Burnt Honey Gastrique, Fermented Jalepeno Slices, Lemony Sprouts Kraut-Chi, and Radicchio & Sunchoke Kraut with Thyme are all inside.

192 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 30, 2015

About the author

Autumn Giles is a freelance writer and recipe developer whose work has appeared in Modern Farmer, New American Homesteader, PUNCH, Serious Eats, Edible Baja Arizona, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA in English from Barnard College. Autumn grew up in Montana and, after spending ten years in New York City, now lives in an old pink house in rural Arizona with two gray cats and Paul K. Tunis, the book's illustrator. She blogs at autumnmakesanddoes.com and is on Twitter and Instagram @autumnmakes.