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Review title: Nice Pictures...otherwise uninspiring
Product review: I have to start out by saying that I prefer to make spreads with added pectin. I don't have the time, or patience for the long simmering times required to make a jam or jelly without commercial pectin, and I don't typically care for the flavor that the long cooking times produce.With that said, all of the recipes in this book call for the long-boil method of producing jams and jellies, so I didn't find this book useful.The pictures are very nice, and the scientific information is accurate. She does list processing times for all of the recipes, my biggest pet peeve with any jam recipe is a last line that says "put into jars and seal", but a lot of the recipes call for ingredients that I have no idea where to acquire (crystalized angelica???), and cooking processes that can take days (mushroom catsup).I would skip this book in favor of a more inclusive canning guide, or a few hours spent researching recipes and techniques on the internet.
