The Organic Canner Book Review
The weather is warming up, seeds are sprouting and soon it will be time to start harvesting and preserving our homegrown food to feed our family for the next year. It’s time to dust off the canning pots, stock up on canning lids and get those canning recipes organized! This is the perfect time to learn some new canning recipes to add to your repertoire. I’m excited to share with you this great new canning book I’ve added to my collection, The Organic Canner by Daisy Luther. This is not your mother’s canning book! This cookbook if filled with over 200 pages of delicious, unique recipes that will add pizzazz and excitement to your home canned goods.
I grew up in a family who canned and preserved the majority of the foods we ate. Looking back now I realize just how lucky I was to have been raised that way, although back then I often took it for granted. For me it just seemed the norm since I grew up in a rural farming community. While the foods we ate were wholesome and healthy, they were your typical meat and potatoes meals. There wasn’t a lot of spice or flavorings beyond salt and pepper.
When I first began canning on my own as a young adult, I used a lot of the same recipes my mom, grandmother and great grandmother used. Then in my travels as a young adult, I began to experience cuisines from other cultures and my taste buds longed for more flavorings and spice in my foods. I’ve been looking for more canning recipes that incorporate more flavors and diversity in our foods. I hit the jackpot when I got my hands on a copy of The Organic Canner!
This book is filled with 200+ pages of unique, delicious canning recipes for jams, condiments, fruits, vegetables, nuts, meats, pickles, beans, soups, and meals in jars. A few recipes I’m looking forward to trying this summer are Honey Vidalia Barbeque Sauce, Ginger Peach Jam, Peachy Keen Salsa, Pleasantly Pickled Red Onions, Carrots with Honey, Deep South BBQ, and Boston Baked Beans.
There’s a chapter explaining the basics of water bath canning and includes an altitude chart which I really appreciate. We live at a higher elevation and in the past I always had to go online to search for an altitude chart so having one available in a cookbook I’m using is quite convenient!
While I grew up water bath canning and have a lot of experience in that area, I’ve never used a pressure canner. I’ve owned one since last summer when my husband bought one for me but I’ve been too intimidated to try it (terrible, I know!) I’ve read the instruction manual several times but haven’t had the confidence to try it yet. There is a section in this book where Luther explains how to use a pressure canner and after reading it I feel so much more confident about giving it a try soon!
At the end of the book, Luther explains how to figure out a safe method to can your own favorite recipes. This is something I’ve been wanting to learn how to do for a while, especially now that I have a pressure canner. We use our large chest freezer to preserve a lot of our foods but we want to reduce our dependence on electricity and start canning more of these foods instead of freezing them.
Overall The Organic Canner is a great book to have in your collection whether you’re new to canning or a seasoned canner!
The Organic Canner author Daisy Luther provided me a copy of her book in exchange for my honest review. Luther also graciously provided an extra copy of the book to give away to one of our readers! To enter for your chance to win, leave a comment below and tell us why you want to win. The giveaway will end on May 22, 2015
The giveaway for a copy of the book is now over. A winner was randomly selected (thank you random.org!) from all the comments below and the winner has been emailed. Thank you all for participating!
I would love to win that book! I have been canning for a few years now and have really loved making my own stuff. There is nothing like flavoring oatmeal in the coldest days of the year with a yummy jam that reminded you of the summer sun when you were out picking those very strawberries with your sister. While I have been canning for a few year by myself, last year my mom and my sister also started to become interested in it, so it became something that we would all do together! That was very exciting to me because it is way more fun to have company in the kitchen, not to mention the time together while growing or picking the stuff we now wanted to can. I am always on the lookout for new recipes and ideas to try and to share with them to continue on our new family tradition!
Also I want to take a moment to say I love your blog! I have been lurking about for a few months now and I have bookmarked lots of info and ideas you have shared. Thanks!!
Like you I’ve been intimidated by pressure canning but I found a woman willing to walk me through it. I love to have these recipes to try when she teaches me. Most of the canning I’ve tasted was rather blah and uninspired. This sounds perfect. Thanks for the opportunity to win this awesome book. Good luck everyone.
I would love this book! I have been caning on my own since my early twenties, and at my mom and grandma’s sides since I was young. I’m always looking for a little twist on the more traditional jams and jellies to spice it up a little. I’ve been pressure canning for the last couple of years, and still have moments when I worry if I’m doing it right. I’m going this book will give me a little more confidence when working with the beast (what u calm my pc)
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My wife and I are trying to can all that our family consumes. We actually produce a lot on our .28 acres and would relish the chance to learn some new and exciting recipes for canning. We appreciate your blog for ideas on moving towArd a more sustainable us. Thanks and hope to win.
I would love to win this book. I grew up watching my mom and grandma canning and would love to do it myself! Trying to get a garden going this year. Love your blog, usually don’t comment, just to busy, but you have great stuff!!!
I’d love to win this because I’ve really gotten into gardening in the past couple of years and would like to be able to can some of the things I grow.
Several years ago my family was poisoned by a toxic house. And now suffers from severe Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, to the point of autonomic seizures if we breathe, wear or eat anything with chemicals in it. We were not expected to live, but here we are. We would love to learn organic canning. Our entire life now revolves around organic. which you know can be very costly and very hard to find in stores. we have a baby garden started in buckets . Your giveaways is a wonderful way to lend a helping hand.
Thank You!
I didn’t grow up in a family that put food up and fell into and in love with it on my own as an adult. I am always looking for new and exciting recipes and to improve my methods and this book sounds great!
I would so enjoy this book….
I am expecting our second baby in November and I want to get as much canned this fall so we are prepared for the winter. My son is already an endless pit at 18 months and I need to keep as much healthy food on hand as possible. I just started canning tomatoes and raspberry jam the past couple years, but I am eager to broaden my canning repertoire…peaches, beans, pickles!
I dabble in canning but usually end up freezing things because I like to just throw things together an fear that they will be unsafe to can. I think the chapter that shows how to make your own canning recipes would be perfect. I am very interested in canning only healthy ingredients. This book sounds perfect for me.
I would love to win this! This will be my first year canning and figure I can use all the help I can get.
Like you I grew up canning for winter. We always had to have at least 52 quarts of whatever we were canning! One for each week. Our freezer was for the meat we raised, not the veggies.
I also would love to treat my family to great tasting foods. Most canned foods dont have much flavor and this is what I also grew up on. It would be a blessing to be abl edge to win such an awesome book. Thank you for the chance.
I’m somewhat new to canning, but i love organic as much as possible. This book would be a great tool for my, my husband, and my 3 sons.
I would to have this book. I do a lot of canning as I have a wonderful mom who taught me how to can growing me. I’m always looking for new recipes especially with wholesome and organic ingredients, from my garden if possible. Thanks for the chance to win.
I have never canned before, but I’ve been doing some research and would love to win this book.
I’m sure it would help me!
What a perfect book to help me with my goal to get over my fear of canning more of my produce from our garden. I would love to share it with my daughters too. We all could learn so much
I would absolutely love to win a copy of this book.
I grew up canning with my mother.
Sadly she died suddenly when I was 20.
Years went by without me feeling confident enough to start canning again without my Mom at my side.
Over the last 3 years I have began to take it up again with a renewed passion.
My father passed this last year and before he died he helped aid in my confidece by teaching me the art of canning tuna.
I had always been intimidated by pressure cooking anything without my Mom.
I will be 50 this year and feel the spirit of my Mom and Dad with me as I expand my canning adventures.
Thank you for this opportunity and God Bless ❤
Wehrli wäre mit Dir sehr zufrieden. Das Titelfoto mit dem Essen entspricht so ganz dem Ornprngsduinzip des Schweizer Künstlers. Schaffst Du das mit Käsefondue auch (ich meine die Ordnung)?
Been looking for this kind of Canning book for a while! I’m trying pressure Canning for the first time this year
I would love to win this book. I have many family favorite recipes that I would love to can.
The paragon of unndestandirg these issues is right here!
My husband and I have been canning for years with what we grow and can source locally from our farmers markets and sales at the grocery store. Recently we have decided to sell our house and move to Maine to homestead. I would love to have this book so we can try some amazing new things with all the bounty from our 2 acre gardens. Love the site, keep up the good work <3
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I’m a Montana girl and never learned to can. We are endeavoring to move back to Missoula county and raise our children this way. I need all the help I can get, so I was happy to find your site and happy to see the giveaway, also! I will be visiting often! Thank you!
I would like to win because i am new to canning and in my family we don´t do it so I have no experience in first hand. I have recently came part of an allotment and I know I will not be able to use everything fresh when it´s all ripe so I would like to know what do to with everything so it dont go bad.
Een klein kaal spelertje dat zich beklaagt bij de Grote Scetidsrechehr. Over pijn. Onrecht.Je dacht toch niet aan Wesley? Wel?Mooi stuk
I was wanting to know if you ever thought of switching the page layout of your site? Its very well written; I enjoy what you have got to say. But maybe you could include a little more in the way of content so people could connect to it better. Youve got an awful lot of text for only having one or two images. Maybe you could space it out better?
இப்படி இத்துப்போன கடவுள்களை வைத்துக் கொண்டுதான் இழுத்துக் கொண்டு திà®°ிகிà®±ாà®°்கள் இந்து à®®ுன்னணியினர்… நன்à®±ாய்ச் சொன்னீà®°்கள் தமிழன் அய்யா… தங்கள் வருகைக்குà®®் கருத்துக்குà®®் நன்à®±ி!!
Warto też zwrócić uwagę na sam program stabilizacyjny. Tak jak w przypadku kryzysu azjatyckiego 10 lat temu, tak i teraz tzw. państwom rozwijającym nakazuje się postępować odwrotnie niż czynią to ich bogaci bracia (hmmm, albo raczej wierzyciele).
I grew up canning with my family and continue with my daughter-in-law. She gardens organic so this would be great for us!
I am new to canning (along with planting my very first garden!), so this book would help me in a major way! I am so excited to be starting this new chapter in my life! Good luck to everyone! 🙂
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I am a pretty confident canner, both with water bath and pressure canners, and have been doing it for decades. Lots of times I make up my own recipes to can based on what is available, and don’t usually have a problem with it. I have been using the pressure canner on my flat top stove for several years, and last summer I found out that I will probably have it crack into four pieces when I least expect it. Now, I am looking for a way to do my pressure canning with an alternate heat source. I hope this book addresses it. Also, it sounds like there are some amazing recipes in there.
I would love to expand my canning abilities!
This book looks amazing! I have had an organic garden for 7 years after buying a small farm in Georgia and would love to have wonderful new recipes right at my fingertips!
I would love to win this book because I am looking to try my hand at canning this autumn. I have started making my own bread, rolls, and sweets. I am planning a garden so I can grow some of my own items to can. It would be great to have a book at my fingertips and I love recipe books!
I’m some what new to canning with lots yet to learn. I love going organic with all I can and learning more with that each day so with loving your newsletters Im sure I will love this cookbook and learn much from it too!! Thanks for all you give!!
Would love to win the canning book, I would like to can every thing organic.
Also wanted to mention that I love your newsletters, thank you, Corine
I have canned for years but could use new recipes. So glad you are helping others learn.
I am saving for a off grid Yurt in Montana after I graduate from college, I am a senior in the fall. Buying a canning book that has the reputation as this was is a priority of mine. Growing my own food is part of the reason why I want to make this change. I am saving, researching and dreaming. I would love to win this book then I can put that portion in my Yurt savings account. Pennies saved are pennies earned. Blessings to your family and land.
Thank you for the chance to win this amazing book. I started learning to can last year. I really enjoy it and would love to have the chance to learn more. As well as gain more confidence in the processes.
I would love to win this book. I’m always looking for great canning recipes.
I love summertime, when I can grow fruits and vegetables and save all of that summertime flavor in a jar. Would love to win the cookbook!
I would love to have this book because, I have to eat healthy foods for health reasons. No processed foods and all the bad stuff you get in the stores bought foods. I grow a garden and do what I can to put up ( canning, freezing) some of our food. I could sure use the help with good tasting recipes. I pray I win.
I would love to have this book! I am another person who is intimidated by the pressure canner. I have my great grandmother’s canner but have never even tried to use it. This book sounds like the reference I need for the confidence to try it out.
This book sounds wonderful. I have been raised eating from a garden. Daddy always planted one every year on Good Friday (and still does; he will be 85 this year) and my husband and I plant every spring and fall. Mama always froze everything but I started canning years ago. I am always looking for new ways to put up our vegetables.
I also want to let you know that I love your blog. I am currently making dandelion infused oil and salve. I started by getting my grandchildren involved picking the dandelions. We will be making salve this week. I cannot wait to share this experience with them. They also help me in the garden planting, picking and they are great green bean snappers!
I want to learn how to can. This looks like a great book to learn with!
i, too, grew up in a canning household. my grandparents were farmers. my son has a lot of food issues, so i have to be extra careful and do most myself. i’m sure this book would be valuable! especially for the ever-intimidating pressure canner 😉 i have one going unused, too!
Guess a strictly organic gardener should want an organic canning cookbook. My mom was a child of the depression and I remember her canning all summer long. And pitting lots of cherries from our next door neighbors tree! Can’t wait to start getting your newsletter. We are far south of you in Mo and already busy freezing strawberries, rhubarb, and asparagus.
I’d love to win this book because I’ve always wanted to try canning. It would help me save money and eat healthier. I’d also really like to make my own jelly for my son rather than buy jelly and jam from the supermarkets.
I’ve canned jams and jellies for a long time, but only last year went the next step and tried water bath canning (applesauce). I’m still a novice, and so could use some dependable recipes for preserving this summers bounty.
I would love this book! I grew up much like you with home canned veggies on the table all through the winter because of our garden and my mom and grandmother canning. I didn’t realize until I had my own family how much better tasting home canned is than store-bought. Not to mention healthier for you. So my mom taught me to can, but mostly we just can the staples, plain green beans, potatoes, tomatoes, jams and jellies (blackberry, fig, etc). I would dearly love a chance to increase my canning.repertoire:)
I’d like to win because I recently acquired a bunch of canning jars, pectin, seasoning for canning pickles, etc. — and have no idea what to do with it! So this book would be great!
Would love to win this. I’m learning more canning techniques each year, and besides what we grow in our own garden, I purchase several things from the Amish farms or farmer’s market in our area.
This looks to be the perfect book to enhance our 15yr daughter’s home economics curriculum!!!!!!!!!!! She is learning all about the value of buying in bulk, cooking from scratch and why canning is the way to save LOTS of money for your family. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway. God bless to you and your family.
It’s a plsuaere to find someone who can identify the issues so clearly
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I grew up preserving the bounty of the garden with my mom, but I’ve never done it on my own. I’m afraid to try it on my own. Mom always knew what to do. I’m looking for a really good book to help me learn how to can safety on my own.
I’d love to have some new canning recipes to add to my repertoire.
I have been a canner since I was a child, helping my mom and grandmother preserve the bounty from my garden. I would love to learn more about canning organically and discovering new recipes.
I’ve never canned in my life, but I’ve read a lot about it, i really want to can both wayer & pressure cooker. Right now i only stock food in the freezer or non-perishable foods, canning would be awesome to add to my pantry
I would LOVE to win this book. I’ve been canning for years and am always on the lookout for new & interesting ways to preserve the bounty.
I would love to win because we have a huge garden — and I know very little about canning.
I NEED a book like this! Im a beginner canner and this book would be all i need to make me an expert. Im canning because i was recently diagnosed with Hypothyroidism and to improvemy health, i need quality foods. Hence canning organic foods! So this book would be very helpful to me.
Thanks for this great giveaway! I am looking for ways to replace packaged products in my family’s diet and be more self-sufficient. We have started a large garden and I would like to learn to preserve the harvest.
I have learned to can, but would like to learn so much more. This book sounds perfect. To have everything at my fingertips would be wonderful since I too live at a high altitude.
I am just getting started, so Id like to start right, rather than make a bunch of little mistakes along the way to perfection. Good recipes and instructions can make all the difference! thanks for the chance!
I have canned once in my life when i was younger. I would love to know how to can. Thank you for giving us a chance to win. I found you from Pinterest!