Product Description

Put a Lid on It! uncomplicates home preserving and shows and shows you how to make the most of fruits and vegetables all year 'round.

Inside are easy recipes for jams, jellies, and marmalades including Peach Pear Jam with Lime, Cherry Orange Freezer Jam, Microwave Winter Pear Amaretto Jam, Tangerine Lemon Jelly, Sparkling Sweet Pepper Jelly, Mango Marmalade, and Lemon Ginger Zucchini Marmalade.

There is also a dazzling array of fruit butters, curds, conserves, pickles, relishes, salsas, chutneys, dips, pestos, sauces, specialty vinegars and oils, and low-sugar sweet spreads!

And once you've bottled and put a lid on it, the authors encourage you to take the lid off and use these preserves in delicious recipes such as Spiced Plum Butter Bran Muffins, Hot Melted Brie with Chutney, Peach and Jam Upside Down Cake, and Quick Jam Apple Crisp.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #331009 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 236 pages

Review
Put a Lid on It! is like a great novel, once you pick it up you're not going to want to put it down (unless you're grabbing another jar to fill with yummy preserves).
— Jayne and Jennifer Glenn, hosts of the TV show Put a Lid on It!

Put a Lid on It! brings our whole glorious tradition of preserving in Canada into the nineties, using all the latest and safest methods with batches tailored to smaller households.
— Elizabeth Baird, food director, Canadian Living magazine

From the Back Cover
Put a Lid on It! uncomplicates home preserving and shows and shows you how to make the most of fruits and vegetables all year 'round.

Inside are easy recipes for jams, jellies, and marmalades including Peach Pear Jam with Lime, Cherry Orange Freezer Jam, Microwave Winter Pear Amaretto Jam, Tangerine Lemon Jelly, Sparkling Sweet Pepper Jelly, Mango Marmalade, and Lemon Ginger Zucchini Marmalade.

There is also a dazzling array of fruit butters, curds, conserves, pickles, relishes, salsas, chutneys, dips, pestos, sauces, specialty vinegars and oils, and low-sugar sweet spreads!

And once you've bottled and put a lid on it, the authors encourage you to take the lid off and use these preserves in delicious recipes such as Spiced Plum Butter Bran Muffins, Hot Melted Brie with Chutney, Peach and Jam Upside Down Cake, and Quick Jam Apple Crisp. 

About the Author
Ellie Topp, food consultant to Life Network's Put a Lid on It!, is a certified culinary professional and a professional home economist with a graduate degree in experimental foods. She is the author of Feasts for Families and Meals, Microwave Style, and she co-authored Healthy Home Cooking with Margaret Howard.

Margaret Howard is a registered dietitian, a professional home economist, and a food and nutrition consultant to government and industry. She has co-authored eight cookbooks including Choice Menus, More Choice Menus, Eat Well Live Well, The Great California Lifestyle Cookbook and Healthy Home Cooking.