If you’re interested in food preservation, check out the below titles on this topic that are, as of this writing, owned by the Davenport Public Library. Descriptions provided by the publishers.

Attainable sustainable pantry : a back-to-basics guide to stocking your kitchen by Kris Bordessa

A handy illustrated collection of tried and true techniques to fill your cupboards with wholesome, homemade food—and save money, too.

Internet sensation Kris Bordessa shows how to replace storebought, processed products with your own delicious, nutritious entrees, side dishes, condiments, snacks, and more.

With more than 120 recipes—from cake mixes and marmalades to relishes, pickles, and coffee creamer—this comprehensive guide will help you ditch store-bought processed foods and fill your pantry with homemade, healthier options that will save you time and money—and taste better, too!

Inside these pages, you’ll find recipes for:

• Breakfast favorites, including homemade instant oatmeal, classic pancake and waffle mix, and make-ahead egg cups
• Baking must-haves, from chocolate cake mix to no-knead rosemary-garlic bread, sourdough bread loaves, and easy flour tortillas
• Everyday go-to condiments, such as ranch dressing, grainy mustard, teriyaki sauce, and mayonnaise
• Quick pickles, like bread-and-butter zucchini pickles, pickled beets and okra, and dill pickle relish
• Healthier snacks, including barbecue potato chips, sour “fruit” snacks, guacamole, and hummus
• And a huge collection of canning classics, from orange-vanilla marmalade and bourbon-apple jelly to chowchow, pizza sauce, salsa, and more—all reviewed for safety by the National Center for Home Food Preservation

With author and homesteader Kris Bordessa as your guide, you’ll learn how to meal prep more efficiently, reduce waste, cut out processed ingredients, and enjoy more homemade foods year-round, all from the bounty in your own cupboards. – National Geographic

Cold canning : the easy way to preserve the seasons without hot water processing by Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough ; photographs by Eric Medsker

Discover this food preservation bible for the modern cook, with a collection of 425 recipes for small-batch jams, jellies, chili crisps, pickles, krauts, kimchis, and more that will safely keep for months to years in your fridge or freezer.

Cold canning is a revolutionary new approach to preserving the best produce of the season, without the headache of traditional canning methods. Whether you’re canning for convenience, frugality, or fun, these small-batch recipes are simple to make and can be safely stored for months or even years in your refrigerator or freezer.

Home cooks will love cold canning because…

• It’s easier, requiring no unwieldy tools
• It preserves fresher flavors in the jar
• It saves money with small batches
• It saves time with quick setup and cooking
• It’s healthier because recipes use less sugar and salt
• It’s completely safe

Bestselling authors Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough are among America’s most trusted culinary experts, and here they gather 425 recipes showing how to pickle and preserve the world—from strawberry jam to Sri Lankan lime pickles, from peach-ginger preserves to homemade sambal oelek. With Cold Canning, it is easier than ever to save a taste of the summer for any time of the year. – Voracious

Creating a modern homestead : traditional skills for real, everyday life by Victoria Pruett ; foreword by Amy K. Fewell

Learn how to easily bring simple living and self-sufficiency into your life, no matter where you live, in a way that works for you.

As our modern lives demand more and more from us, many people long for a slower pace of life. While picking up and moving to the country may not be an option for everyone, it is possible to embrace simple living and more traditional skills no matter where you live. Learn the lost art of from-scratch cooking, practice food security by keeping a deep pantry, find out how easy it is to raise backyard chickens, experience the joy of growing your own food (even in a small space), and preserve your own harvest through a variety of methods.

For the last ten years, Victoria Pruett of A Modern Homestead has guided her readers through the process of discovering that they truly can incorporate traditional skills into their everyday routines while they also juggle work, children, and social lives. Though the idea of including traditional skills may conjure images of spending eight hours a day in the kitchen, nothing could be further from the truth. Instead, Victoria teaches you how to deepen your skillset and understanding of self-reliance and how to easily fit simple living into your life in a way that works for you. Chapters cover:

• Cooking from scratch: 126 recipes for breads, main dishes, and desserts
• Building a robust food supply for your family
• Food preservation: water bath canning, pressure canning, freezing, dehydrating, and freeze-drying
• Best practices for backyard chickens
• Customizing your backyard garden—including traditional and Back to Eden methods—for your zone and growing season, companion planting, and natural pest control
• How to make sourdough work for you
• And more! – Lyons Press

The essential canning cookbook : water bath & pressure canning recipes for every season by Molly Bravo

Master the art of home canning with foolproof recipes, clear step-by-step guidance, and practical storage tips that make preserving food feel approachable from day one.

From jams and pickles to soups, sauces, and vegetables, The Essential Canning Cookbook offers beginner-friendly instruction alongside versatile recipes for everyday cooking and long-term pantry planning.

• Beginner-friendly, step-by-step guidance for both water bath and pressure canning
• Recipes for jams, pickles, soups, sauces, fruits, and vegetables
• Pantry storage tips, food preservation basics, and canning safety guidance
• Ideal for meal prep, batch cooking, seasonal harvesting, and reducing food waste
• Vegetarian-friendly recipes and approachable techniques for everyday home cooks

Whether you’re a beginner canner, an avid homesteader, or a gardener looking to make the most of your harvest, this cookbook makes preserving, this cookbook makes preserving the flavors of summer harvest feel approachable and rewarding. From garden-fresh tomatoes and crisp cucumbers to sweet berries and homemade jams, it covers both water bath and pressure canning with clear, step-by-step instructions, helpful safety guidance, and easy recipes for pickles, sauces, soups, vegetables, and more.

Recipes are perfect for meal prep and batch cooking, making it easy to reduce food waste, save time during busy weeks, and keep homemade staples on hand year-round.

Reconnect with the rhythm of the kitchen with this practical and inspiring kitchen companion. – Cider Mill Press

How to store your garden produce : the key to self-sufficiency by Piers Warren

The ultimate guide to storing and preserving your garden produce.

Even half-acre plots can grow enough to feed a family of four for an entire year, yet with most produce ready to harvest in the summer and autumn, many gardeners struggle to use all of their fresh fruit and vegetables before it spoils. With proper storage techniques, there’s no need for any of your hard work to go to waste, and you can enjoy home-grown goodness all year-round while saving money, lowering your food miles and avoiding the plastic packaging of a typical supermarket shop.

Jam-packed with creative storage techniques and 92 delicious recipes, How to Store Your Garden Produce is beautifully organised to showcase the best ways to preserve your produce, including dehydrating, freezing, fermenting and pickling. Illustrated with aspirational photographs throughout, this book features a useful A–Z of garden produce, with each entry detailing up-to-date recommended varieties, improved storage methods and vegan alternatives in recipes to make the most of your harvests.

From strawberry wine and peach chutney to mushroom ketchup and celeriac soup, learn simple and enjoyable techniques for preserving your produce with this handy guide. – Bloomsbury Publishing

Meals in a jar by Diane Devereaux

Enjoy recipes for safely pressure canning over 100 delicious, ready-to-eat meals that are simple and healthy, with no freezing or refrigeration required. Just pop open a jar, heat, and eat!

What kind of cuisine are you craving tonight? Mexican? Asian? Mediterranean? No, you won’t be ordering takeout. You’ll be visiting your pantry to pull out a mouthwatering meal in a jar, ready to heat and eat in minutes!

Let The Canning Diva® show you how to preserve ready-made, shelf-stable meals your family will love. As you learn to make international favorites from six different cuisines, delicious dishes like Spicy Beef Fajitas, Thai Chicken Larb Gai, and Zuppa Toscana, you will discover how easy it is to safely and confidently can and store complete meals. Plus, you’ll enjoy the peace of mind that comes with knowing what goes into every meal you eat.

Suitable for all skill levels, this comprehensive guide includes pressure canning basics and a full chapter dedicated to vegetarian meals. Transform your meal prep and save valuable time and money. Start making your own Meals in a Jar today. – Harvest House

Preserving the seasons : a guide to canned, jammed, frozen, dehydrated, freeze-dried, quick-pickled, and infused produce, herbs, and flowers by Holly Capelle

Straightforward best practices for canning, jamming, infusing, drying, dehydrating, freezing, freeze-drying, and quick-pickling all in one place! With 100+ recipes for using what you preserved.

Preserving the Seasons provides clear and safe best practices for preserving herbs, fruit, vegetables, and edible flowers. It is one-stop shopping for the simplest and safest methods: jamming, infusing, drying, dehydrating, freezing, freeze-drying, and quick-pickling.

Highlights include:

• 100+ recipes such as dry rubs, marinades, pie fillings, that use what you’ve preserved.
• Expert tips and lists of equipment needed for each preserving method.
• Hundreds of full color photographs that guide and inspire.
• A comprehensive list of herbs for botanical teas and an exhaustive guide to edible flowers with preserving and usage notes. (Think: Compound butter! Cake decorations!)
• Original recipes for jams and jellies, such as Wild Violet jelly and Spiced Raspberry Jam.
• Ideas for infusing salt, sugar, honey, oil, and vinegar to elevate cooking.
• A user-friendly index that quickly helps you find ways to preserve and enjoy your bounty.

Organized by preserving method, each section covers detailed information for best practices, along with troubleshooting and storage tips. Here, too, are delicious recipes that help you serve what you’ve preserved: Rosemary Citrus Bundt Cake that uses dehydrated oranges; herb blends like Greek Seasoning Blend to enliven meat and poultry; Any Stone Fruit Preserves, perfect in homemade ice cream; Quick Pickled Pepper Slices for burgers and tacos—and anything else; a Peach Slab Pie that brings summer any day with frozen peaches. – S&S / Simon Element

Preserving with a purpose : next-generation canning recipes & kitchen wisdom by Sarah Thrush

In this next-gen guide to canning and preserving, get all the classic techniques and recipes plus global flavors, meal-prep tips, and green-living wisdom for today’s world.

Preserving with a Purpose is not your mama’s or grandma’s canning and preserving book. In 125 scrumptious and foolproof recipes, Sarah Thrush—whose inspiring, informative, and frequently viral videos on TikTok @peeliesnpetals have been seen by tens of millions of people—shows you the best and tastiest ways to put up the traditional canning foods, from tomatoes and green beans to apples and peaches, just like mama and grandma did. But she also ranges widely in the more robust flavor profiles that come from the best cuisines from all over the planet—all of which earlier preserving books neglect. Hers is the kind of food today’s world citizens eat, diverse and glorious in its variety.

If you are a rookie preserver, you will master canning and preserving quickly, safely, and thoroughly. If you are an experienced canner, you will discover amazing new recipes and techniques, along with advice on how to integrate canning and preserving into a self-sufficient, money-saving, and sustainable lifestyle.

Sarah reveals her most beloved recipes—none of which are available online—in these beautifully photographed pages. The recipes include:

• Date and Fig Fermented Honey
• Aunt Madge’s Dill Pickles
• DIY Teriyaki Sauce
• Pickled Peaches
• Pork Carnitas Meal-in-a-Jar
• Carrot Cake Jam
• Fresh Mint Jelly
• Spiced Apple Butter

Alongside the recipes, Sarah shares:

• Hard-won wisdom on how to use canning to really save money and achieve a self-sufficient, nearly waste-free home
• Seasonal and monthly pantry-planning and meal-prepping tools
• A complete guide to safe water canning and pressure canning methods
• Troubleshooting guides

Whether you grow some or all of your own food or seek out bargains at the store or farmers’ market, this comprehensive guide will have you preserving with a purpose. – Harvard Common Press

The pressure canning cookbook : step-by-step recipes for pantry staples, gut-healing broths, meat, fish, and more by Jennifer Gomes, Master Food Preserver

In The Pressure Canning Cookbook, passionate Master Food Preserver Jennifer Gomes packs healthy, yummy, and inspiring canning recipes that both kids and adults will love. Learn how to can pantry basics like common veggies and ground meat, as well as a tasty variety of soups, stews, and the nutritional powerhouse, bone broth (with instructions for how to customize it)!

This guide shares practical tips for how to avoid common pressure canning pitfalls and explains the “why” behind safe canning recommendations. Beyond the basics, though, The Pressure Canning Cookbook includes exotic recipes like Mexican bean and bone soup and vinha d’ahlos (a tangy Portuguese dish). Jenny teaches new and experienced canners alike how to choose the pressure canner that’s right for them, break the canning process into short, economical chunks of time, and save money while canning!   – Skyhorse Publishing

Simple country living : techniques, recipes, and wisdom for the garden, kitchen, and beyond by Annette Thurmon of Azure Farm

Answer the calling deep within for a simpler life: plant bountiful gardens, preserve fresh seasonal produce, make your own natural cleaning products, and more.

Join homesteader and founder of Azure Farm, Annette Thurmon, to connect with nature on a deeper level. In Simple Country Living, you’ll find a sampler covering homesteading techniques that can be put to work no matter where you live. Recipes, tips, tricks, and family activities will help you reduce waste, save money, and harness new skills:

• The Natural- and Nature-Inspired Home: Create family traditions around nature, including strawberry and apple picking, natural egg dye, salt dough ornament making, and decorating your home with natural elements, plus some recipes too! Make DIY cleaning sprays, reduce food waste, learn self-sufficient laundry and bathroom tips, and share the bounty with nature-inspired gifts and gatherings.
• Cultivating a Garden: Master the essentials for a healthy garden, including soil health, garden layout, raised beds, choosing your seeds, frost dates, crop rotation, companion planting, compost essentials, and ways to involve the whole family in the garden.
• What to Plant in Your Garden: Decide what to grow based on your climate and preferences, figure out how much to plant, and garden through the seasons. Go further with home orchards or berry patches, and explore the benefits of natural pest control, greenhouses, and animals in the garden. There are also activities for the family inspired by the garden.
• Preserving the Harvest: Learn everything you need to can, freeze, dehydrate, and save seeds—including plenty of recipes, from salsa to fruit spreads. Have the whole family join in and create memories together.
• Mastering the Home Kitchen: Embrace garden-to-table eating with seasonal recipes. Learn how to stock a resilient homestead pantry and find a selection of tried-and-true recipes the whole family will love (and love to cook!).

No matter where you live or what skills you already have, the simple country life can be more than a state of mind. Start growing more, cooking more, and living in rhythm with nature. – Cool Springs Press