Arcadia Public Library

Learn the ins and outs of canning from preserving pro, Karen. In this class, Karen demystifies the canning process, explaining the necessary (and unnecessary) tools and rules for hot water bath canning as well as important safety tips. For first time canners, Karen recommends starting with a pickled carrot, and she provides a yummy recipe for a basic brine. Note that this brine can be used to pickle any veggie you like - consider this your go-to recipe...

Use up summer produce to make delicious drinking vinegars. This video originally appeared on Facebook Live on August 3, 2017.

Learn how to preserve the taste of late-summer garden tomatoes with canning pro, Karen Solomon. Karen will teach you the basics of selecting and peeling perfectly ripe tomatoes, then show you how to safely can and process them so you can enjoy the taste of summer sunshine all year long. These whole canned tomatoes are perfect for soups, sauces, and everyday cooking throughout the year.

In this class, Kelly and Sarah share six recipes for holiday preserves, all of which make perfect gifts for your favorite foodies. From boozy concoctions to pickled veggies, each recipe is super-simple, quick-to-make, and requires a relatively short wait period before they can be consumed. Alcohol-based recipes include a grapefruit-ginger infused vodka, a cherry-vanilla-orange bourbon, coffee liqueur, and orange-fig bitters. For non-alcoholic options,...

Sustainable, low-waste and delectable, preserved food is indispensable to any modern kitchen. Macdonald and Tee show you how to make the most of any hedgerow-foraged bounty, allotment gluts or leftovers. They cover time-honoured concoctions, as well as some modern combinations that will make your gift of homemade jam or chutney gratefully received. -- adapted from back cover

Joel and Dana's journey into preserving began with an innocent lesson in making jam. Almost a decade later, WellPreserved.ca is an extraordinary resource for both beginners and experts alike. Their much-anticipated first cookbook showcases seven different preserving techniques--waterbath canning, pressure canning, dehydrating, fermenting, cellaring, salting & smoking, and infusing--and takes readers on a trip to the market in twenty-five ingredients....