5 Minute Microwave Bottling

A revolutionary method of food preservation

by ISABEL WEBB

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New softcover book, 224 pages, published 2009.

Featured on Ian 'Macca' Mcnamara's Australia All Over program on ABC Radio on November 18th.

Rediscover the pleasure of making your own preserves, jams, jellies, chutneys, pickles, drinks and more with this simple, quick and mess-free method.

Bottling fruit has never been so quick and easy! 5-Minute Microwave Bottling is the ideal book for busy families who want to make the most of their home-grown food. When bottling and preserving in a microwave oven the finished products are closer to their natural form than with more conventional methods. They boast enhanced colour, shape, flavour and keeping quality, as well as retaining their nutritional value.

Please note: Preserving vegetables in the microwave is not recommended because vegetables do not contain the acid content (found in fruit) which inhibits the growth of botulism, but the book does include vegetable recipes, eg pickled beetroot, capsicum chutney, mushroom & choko chutney, pickled cucumbers, mustard pickles, mixed vegetable pickle and many others.

Contents include:

• Before you begin
• Fruit bottling in the microwave
• 'Just Fruit' bottling
• Jams, marmalades, jellies and conserves
• Pickles, chutneys and relishes
• Sugarless fruit spreads and chutneys
• Fruit and nut spreads
• Savoury sauces and salsas
• Home-fried fruits
• Glace and crystallised fruit
• Fruity liqueurs
• Fruity drinks and cordials
• Fruit sorbets

5-Minute Microwave Bottling is an Australian publication. Measurements are in metric, and metric cup and spoon.

About the author

Isabel Webb started her culinary career as a pastry chef in Melbourne. Since then she has worked as a home economist for a variety of large organisations. Isabel was a guest speaker at the First Microwave Information Council of Australia, and since the 1980s she has conducted private microwave classes in the Albury/Wodonga region. She has written many other bestselling books, including Microwave Bottling and More Microwave Bottling. All of Isabel's best recipes are collected in this one volume - 5-Minute Microwave Bottling

Here's an article about Isabel from the Weekly Times, January 2010 - click here to read

5-Minute Microwave Bottling by Isabel Webb