This week: Recipes for fruit preserves, preparing your baking pantry, cookbook previews, giveaways and more

There are a few things that are always in my pantry – honey, maple syrup, and several jars of fruit preserves. Often times for dinner, I will have a piece of whole-grain toast with jam and on my bagels, I like a little cream cheese and a dollop of jam. I am not a jam snob – Bonne Maman is just fine but I do enjoy making preserves from scratch.

My social media feed is filled with beautiful jars of fruit preserves as well as other bounties from the garden and farmer’s market. This Monday I began a small batch of strawberry preserves and everything was going well until I became distracted and my son started telling me that he smelled something burning. My beautiful strawberries were black and my pan was coated with burnt fruit and sugar. I was not a happy camper. It took just two soakings with baking soda to remove the burnt layers in the pan and several hours before the remnants of burnt sugar left the air. I have purchased more strawberries and will begin again. This time no reading, work, or other distractions.

We have over 20,000 preserve recipes (online recipes) in our EYB Library as well as many cookbooks devoted to the subject. My favorite titles are Mes Confitures: The Jams and Jellies of Christine Ferber, The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook and I am loving The Sqirl Jam Book: Jelly, Fruit Butter, and Others recent release (despite the negative news that has surfaced recently). Do you have a favorite cookbook on preserving?

Every year I do a big batch of peach preserves and particularly a batch of Pirate peaches which goes with everything from grilled meats, ice cream, and cake. Pearson Farms has some great tips on peach preserves. I also try to at least do a batch of Classic strawberry jam. What are your favorite fruits to preserve?

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This Week on our Blog

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written articles entitled: John deBary on the most underrated cocktail, Ideas to use up your zucchini glut, Another famed restaurant closes permanently, Beautiful to grow and wonderful to eat and Moldy jam causes a stir at Sqirl. Darcie’s weekly food news antipasto is shared every Sunday #foodnews brings up these information-packed posts).

After this year’s hunt for flour and yeast, I just would like to remind our members to be prepared for second waves of the coronavirus and panic buying that may result in pantry items being difficult to procure. This week I shared a new post on preparing our baking pantries. Also, be sure you also enter the Recipes of Youngstown and Rose’s Ice Cream Bliss cookbook giveaways posted this week. Our Kindle cookbook deals and Looking forward to 2020 cookbook preview posts are continually updated.

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Jenny and the EYB Team

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Featured Recently Indexed Cookbooks

• Oats in the North, Wheat from the South: The History of British Baking, Savoury and Sweet by Regula Ysewijn
• Rose’s Ice Cream Bliss by Rose Levy Beranbaum – Enter our US/CA giveaway.
• Paleo Takeout: Restaurant Favorites Without the Junk by Russ Crandall
• Bread Baking for Beginners: The Essential Guide to Baking Kneaded Breads, No-Knead Breads, and Enriched Breads by Bonnie Ohara
• James Martin’s Islands to Highlands: 80 Fantastic Recipes from Around the British Isles by James Martin
• Coconut & Sambal: Recipes from My Indonesian Kitchen by Lara Lee

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Member Photo of the Week

Caramelized peach tart from The Vineyard Kitchen: Menus Inspired by the Seasons by Maria Helm Sinskey submitted by member anya_sf

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Featured Online Recipe

Shawarma chicken with pomegranate & tahini from Waitrose.com

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EYBDigital Previews

Recently we uploaded our 685th EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages is available for the following cookbooks.

Learn more about EYBDigital Previews.

Note: To learn why you cannot add all EYBDigital Preview recipes to your Bookshelf, please read this Help page.

• 3 recipes from Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine by Olia Hercules
• 3 recipes from Hummus to Halva: Recipes From a Levantine Kitchen by Ronen Givon and Christian Mouysset
• 3 recipes from The Little Lunchbox Cookbook: Easy Real-Food Bento Lunches for Kids on the Go by Renee Kohley Pub date 8/4/2020
• 3 recipes from Happy Vegan Comfort Food: Simple and Satisfying Plant-Based Recipes for Every Day by Karoline Jonsson Pub date 10/1/2020

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Cookbook Giveaways

• Enter our giveaway open to US/UK/AU/NZ to win one of three copies of The Hot Chicken Project: Words + Recipes | Obsession + Salvation by Aaron Turner. Expires July 31st, 2020.
• Enter our US/CA giveaway to win one of three copies of From Scratch: 10 Meals, 150 Recipes, and Dozens of Techniques You Will Use Over and Over by Michael Ruhlman. Expires August 1st, 2020.

*Please note due to the pandemic, promotions are extended until publishers are back in their offices, and warehouses are available to resume the shipment of books. The cookbook giveaway roundup shares all current giveaways.

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