JeBouffe Home Canning Step by Step Guide (second edition) Revised and Expanded

This guide is intended to provide you with the essential information to make your first small jars in a safe and enjoyable way. It will guide you through all stages from preparation to storage of your products.

You will discover the principles of conservation for different types of food, the benefits of home canning, the recommended methods as well as the ones to avoid.

Then you will learn the two proper methods of treatment: the boiling water bath and the pressure canning methods. You will find a list of essential equipment and the detailed steps for a successful canning experience.

Finally you will gain some hands on experience with our easy and delicious recipes.

This guide do not claim to be scientific or complete. We simply wants to give you the tools you need to get into the fun activity of preparing your home preserves.

Home Canning Like Grandma: Canning in Home & Kitchen, Preserving, Supplies & Recipes Book

Learn how to can home preserves just like grandma did. The tips and tricks to a successful home canning project including:

How does canning keep food fresh?
How to can preserves at home
How pressure canning works
How to choose a pressure cooker for canning preserves
Canning supplies
Great Step by Step Canning Recipes

These are older books and have the advantage of remaining free. However, as older books, you want to be careful, as our understanding of canning processes and bacteria has improved. I wouldn’t use the cold pack method on anything that didn’t have a high acid or sugar content, but perhaps there will be some useful recipes.

Woman’s Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals
Woman’s Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals-

Every Step in Canning The Cold-Pack Method

Not really about canning, but these look like fun vintage reads:

Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the “Pennsylvania Germans”

Everyday Foods in War Time

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

“The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for herself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine. Turning her hand to the nearest work, she went out by the day to work as a housecleaner and laundress. Later, seeking to better herself, she accepted employment as a housekeeper for a well-to-do Scottish cattleman, Mr. Stewart, who had taken up a quarter-section in Wyoming. The letters, written through several years to a former employer in Denver, tell of her new life in the new country. They are genuine letters, and are printed as written, except for occasional omissions and alterations of names.”