Williams - Water bath canning and preserving cookbook for beginners: A Complete Guide About Food Preserving With Delicious Recipes for Pickles, Fruits, Vegetables, Meats, And Much More

Water Bath Canning and Preserving Cookbook for Beginners

A Complete Guide About Food Preserving With Delicious Recipes for Pickles, Fruits, Vegetables, Meats, And Much More

By

Natalie Williams

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H ave you ever wanted to can food at home? Do you want to stop buying expensive market-bought canned food products? Then it's time to do the canning yourself by preserving all your favourite meals, meat, soup, fruit and vegetables for a long period of time without the fear of spoilage. In order to do so you need to know food preservation, the canning process, and the different types of canning techniques. This guide will help you learn information about canning process and the canning techniques in order to do it like a pro. Here you will find several recipes that will give you tips about canning different ingredients.

People have been preserving food since ancient times, but it all started in France in the 19th century. During the Napoleonic Wars Napoleon Bonaparte was looking for a way to make food available to the troops. So, he asked the entire population to invent a convenient and cheaper way to preserve food in exchange for a reward. So, in 1809 Nicolas Appert, who is a brewer and a French confectioner, discovered that food cooked in jars will not spoil. He invented a way to seal food in a jar or in a bottle by heating it and maintaining the temperature for a while and then keeping the jar tightly sealed until use. Only if the seal is broken the food rots. In the United States, canning techniques arrived in 1820 when Robert Ayars founded the first factory in New York. William Underwood and Samuel C. Prescott wrote the scientific rules of canning indicating specific temperatures, times and heating requirements for sterilising canned foods.

Today, pressure canning technology is further developed and there are more and more techniques to preserve food and avoid wasting it.

K nowing how to preserve and can fruit and vegetables economically in this day and age is very essential. In early times, the canning techniques were used to preserve food for a long time. It has always been a relevant part of human culinary culture in order to save food and do not waste it.

Contrary to popular belief, canning is a very simple, low-priced and efficient method. You can use it in order to preserve food without the addition of any chemical preservatives or additives. It is used to store vegetables, fruits and cooked sauces. In this way you can eliminate the danger of spoilage by preserving food in jars at high temperature for a long period of time. It is a totally safe process do to the fact that the jars are boiled in a water or pressure bath in order to kill microorganism and inactive enzymes that may rot food. When the food is strongly acidic, microorganisms can be destroyed at a normal boiling temperature. However, when the food is not very acidic, you need to boil the jar at extremely high temperatures in order to destroy all the microorganism inside. Another factor that you need to consider is the temperature because some food may attract Clostridium Botulinum, which is a spore-forming bacteria that fosters mould growth and can introduce harmful bacteria into the human body. This information might scare you, but this book is going to teach you how to avoid this situation and never hurt yourself. Furthermore, during canning process, the pH and temperature of the food are optimized to prevent spoilage and thats the reason why food remains preserved for a long time. In addiction the jars are hermetically sealed and then sterilised by the heat because of the fact that the heating process pushes air from the jar and creates a vacuum seal.

Some scientists have shown that canned foods do not actually lack the nutritional value of fresh foods and are sometimes even much healthier options. Canning is a technique which is used worldwide due to the fact that it increases the shelf-life of the food. It is a very simple technique because you just need basic gear and you do not have to add any additive or extra ingredients to you jars. The required equipment can also be used as many times as you wish to can as much food as you like. It is a budget-friendly technique because it can decrease you addiction to tinned or processed products bought at the market and this is a relief for your wallet.

Canning allows us to eat fruit and vegetable out of season that you cannot enjoy during the year unless have not preserved them. If you buy seasonal food and you can it before it rots, you can store it at home and eat it whenever you want. Canning is an ecological method due to the fact that, unlike factories, no additives or any other artificial preservatives are added to preserve food. When food is canned in factories it leaves a large amount of carbon and sometimes it is wasted. Whereas when you can at home you can use the gears again and again without releasing waste products. Sometimes you do not have time for shopping and in this case, canning can help you. This technique is extremely helpful for those who live in war-torn areas or areas where food supply is precarious.