After years of addressing questions reducing sugar, substituting sugar, and leaving it out altogether, author Marisa McClellan began to rejigger her recipes, helping her home canners enjoy the flavors of the season without the refined sugars. The result is Naturally Sweet Food in Jars, preserving in the tenor of today's health-conscious audience. The inventive spreads, dips, pickles, and whole fruits in McClellan's third preserving book use only unrefined sweeteners:
. . . and less of them! The book is organized by sweeteners, and includes recipes like: