Today's question comes from two personal friends who separately asked me this question, so I figured

if I had two friends ask me this. Perhaps this is something that you're interested in as well.

And the question is, do you recommend any canning or preserving books? One friend in particular

is getting started into canning for the very first time and just did not know where to start.

If someone is wanting a canning book, the first place I always send people is the Ball Blue Book of Home Preserving.

To me, that was my canning Bible. To begin with, I bought my first copy at a thrift store, and then eventually I got a

more updated version. So I would recommend finding an updated version. They have the more

recently tested recipes. That book, you know, the blue book has been around for a long time.

So you want to make sure that it's been fairly recent. I'm not talking about

like 2020 or anything like that. I'm talking about in the last 10 years or so. But get a copy of the

Blue Book of Canning. If that's something that you want to do, read. I still go back to it for different

recipes that are pretty basic recipes. But it also teaches you how to do certain things, why to do certain things,

and it gives you a good ground level basic education on canning. And if you're concerned about

the safety of canning, whether that's maybe you want to do a pressure canner, but you're

afraid is going to blow up on you, which that's something you don't need to worry about, especially with today's pressure canters.

There's too many safety features to even be worried about that.

But maybe you're wanting to make sure that you are doing the right type of canning,

that the vegetable that you're canning, you may need to pressure can it.

You may need to water bath can it.

The Ball Blue book of canning

gives all that information. And if I could read it, having, I hadn't even planted a garden yet,

no experience whatsoever. And I could do it my very first year as a gardener. Anybody can. So that's

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