Perfect Preserves

This comprehensive guide to preserving fruits includes 75 recipes for jams, jellies, marmalades, fruit curds, butters, chutneys, and sweet preserved fruits. The detailed introduction tells you all about ingredients and equipment, gives advice on choosing and preserving fruit, how to sterilize jars, and how to pot, seal and label preserves. It also explains the key techniques, from testing for pectin content to using a jelly bag and making sugar syrup. The mouth-watering recipes include traditional classics such as Strawberry Jam and Lemon Curd, and exciting new ideas, such as Clementine and Lemon Balm Jelly and Cherry-Berry Preserve. All of the preserves have been fully tested and are shown in step-by-step photographs with stunning photographs of the finished recipes. Without doubt this fabulous book is the only guide to preserving fruits and jam- and jelly-making that you will ever need.  The author, Maggie Mayhew, is a full-time cookery writer and home economist, and is the author of several cookbooks including (with Kate Whiteman) Fruit, an a-z reference guide to buying and cooking with fruit from all corners of the world .