Bountiful Gardens books on food storage and processing. Natural, nutritional approach to a maximum h

What do you do with it after you've grown it? Enjoy more of your harvest over the whole year. Here are some of our favorite books on the subject, following the most natural approaches. All methods of preserving food are covered including solar drying, fermentation, and healthy canning. Processing food for the maximum nutrition is included. We also offer vegetarian pectin and a book on acorns.

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BFO-1773

Wild Fermentation

Sandor Ellix Katz, 2003, 187 pp.
The flavor, nutrition and craft of live-culture foods. This book takes the reader on a whirlwind trip through the wide world of fermentation with its compelling and complex flavors, providing basic and delicious recipes that are easy to make at home, including sauerkraut, kimchi, sour pickles, miso, tempeh, dosas, yogurt, kefir, basic cheese, bread, beer and wine. With nearly 100 recipes this is still the most comprehensive and wide-ranging fermentation book available.

$25.00

BFO-1768

How to Store Your Garden Produce

Piers Warren, rev 2008, 143 pp.
Detailed information on the many ways to store over 60 fruits and vegetables, including recipes; for example, instructions on how to freeze or dry peas, plus a recipe for pea pod wine! The author's orientation is toward storing food only until the next season's crop comes in, thereby insuring that the highest quality of food is being eaten.

$14.95

BFO-1770

Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning

Centre Terre Vivante, 2007, 197 pp.
Formerly titled "Keeping Food Fresh" Compiled in France by 150 organic gardeners and recently translated into English, this is a collection of recipes for storing produce without canning, freezing, or other mechanical techniques. Included are drying, fermentation, root cellaring, pickling, preserving in wine, and other techniques used for generations that preserve food simply are as close to fresh as possible, and require no electricity.

$25.00

BFO-1760

Preserving Summer’s Bounty

Susan McClure, editor, 1997, 384 pp.
“A quick and easy guide to freezing, canning, preserving, and drying what you grow.” From the staff of the Rodale Food Center. Included are homemade pectin, food dryer plans, and much more, with many charts and drawings.

$16.95

SPO-9420

Pomona’s Universal Pectin

Now you can make cooked and uncooked jams and jellies sweetened to your own taste. Ordinary fruit pectins require jam or jelly to have 55-85% sugar to set firmly. This pectin jells with honey, sugar, artificial sweetener, or just pure fruit. Can also be used with aspics, glazes, milk puddings, or as a gelatin substitute. Directions and recipes included.

$6.25

BFO-1785

The Solar Food Dryer

The Solar Food Dryer:
Eben V. Fodor, 2006, 144 pp.
Subtitle: "How to Make and Use Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator." The first part deals with the theory and physical facts of solar drying, while the second gives step-by-step instructions for building the author's food dryer. It claims you can quickly and efficiently dry your garden produce all year long-with free sunshine in most places. Also sections on preparing food to dry, recipes, and some very handy appendices.

$15.95

BFO-1780

Dry It!

Gen Macmaniman, 1980, 58 pp.
Ten years ago, this hand-written book started us on some wonderful food adventures and we still use it today. Includes complete plans for a dryer, plus recipes, practical hints, even drying meats & some dairy products.

$10.00

SFO-9433

Nesco American Home Food Dryer

I have used one of these for years and love it. Extremely durable and effective. This 700 watt model is a drying monster, but in one test only averaged 420 Watts-about 4 cents per hour. Quiet, relatively easy to clean, and temperature control. Dries a lot in a day! Unlike other driers, no turning of trays. Comes with one dryer, five drying trays, recipe book, 2 solid sheets, 2 mesh sheets, and 3 jerky spice packets. Measures approximately 13 by 13 by 10-inch.

$69.00

BFO-1740

Root Cellaring

Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables
Mike & Nancy Bubel, 1991, 304 pp.
This is a classic on natural cold storage of fruits and vegetables... the no-cost, no-processing way to store your produce! This book went out of print a while ago and it’s back and timely. If you don’t have a place for a traditional root cellar, a cold storage area can be created in a closet.

$14.95

BFO-1795

Cooking With Sunshine

Cooking With Sunshine
Lorraine Anderson, 2nd ed., 2006, 224 pp.
Our pick of the solar cookbooks. Explains how solar cooking works and its benefits over traditional methods. Instructions for building your own solar cooker using inexpensive, easy-to-find materials, or where to buy a ready-made solar cooker. A wide variety of recipes for main dishes, accompaniments, and desserts for both vegetarian and omnivorous diets. Creative menu ideas for special needs, and more!

$17.95

BFO-1800

Eleanor’s Solar Cookbook

Eleanor Shimeall, revised 2002, 97 pp.
After you build your solar oven, this little book will get you started with a variety of recipes for everything from appetizers to dessert. Includes information on solar canning.

$14.95

BFO-1790

The Expanding World of Solar Box Cookers

Barbara P Kerr, 1999, 79 pp.
All about making the simple solar box cookers we use at the garden. In an afternoon, you can assemble your own cooker and learn to prepare a delicious meal using the sun’s rays.

$15.00

BFO-1750

Nourishing Traditions

Sally Fallon, Revised 2nd edition, 2000, 661 pp.
Several people have requested this for the wonderful unusual recipes from all over the world. The author disputes modern "fat-free" theories, and tries to show how different cultures have been able to achieve balanced and healthful diets using their own local food sources. A wide variety of possibilities for both meat-eaters and vegetarians. Many home-cultured foods (yogurt, miso, sourdough, and many more) with an emphasis on beneficial enzymes. Unusual uses for common grains, and easy recipes for unusual vegetables.

$25.00

BFO-1720

Acorns and Eat ‘em

Suellen Ocean, 1993, 86 pp.
Suellen Ocean, who worked in our shipping room a few years ago, has long been an admirer and eater of acorns...also she is an excellent vegetarian cook. Acorns were the major food staple of the original residents of our land here, the Pomo, and we have even found their grinding tools left behind alongside our creek. Includes information about oak trees and acorns, how to harvest, prepare and use them in many delicious recipes. Suellen wrote this book in part to show that preparing and cooking acorns is not hard, and tastes great.

$16.00

BFO-1765

Flour Power

Marleeta Basey, 2004, 288 pp.
From the cover: Qucik, Easy, and Inexpensive The only complete guide available on the subject of home milling. If you are looking for a whole-grain health bonanza with just a few minutes of kitchen time, you've picked the right book! Modern flour mills and bread machines turn breadmaking into a task no more complicated, nor expensive, than grinding beans and brewing breakfast coffee. Flour Power tells you how to compare, locate and buy one of the dozens of different mills on the market, how to buy the "right" wheat and how to make delicious, light whole meal loaves - every time. Guaranteed Whole-Grain Health Why bother grinding flour at home? Flour Power explains why virtually all commercial flours (even "whole wheat") have lost fiber, vitamins, mineral, enzymes and phytochemicals during processing and storage. A diet rich in whole grains has been linked to vastly improved health, but in many cases researchers aren't absolutely certain which components in the whole grain are actually doing the good work. The only safe way to get all the health benefits is to eat all the grain. Flour Power also tells you how to: -make a gourmet cook euphoric -replace "bad" carbs with "good" carbs -add whole-grain health to low-carb diets -roll oats at home -ensure food self-sufficiency in case of natural disasters -get whole grains in the diets of gluten sufferers -grind flour manually, if you prefer -grind wheat, corn, rye, beans, spelt, quinoa, even peanut butter -prepare healthful (and delicious) quick breads, cakes, cookies, muffins, cornbread and -much more from home-milled flours

$24.95

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