Chutney

[desperance]

Also, forgot to mention, I have ten jars of chutney that need good homes.

Also, if Mac doesn't stop playing with my fingers as I type, that'll be ten jars of chutney and a cat.

Comments

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

Well, having just finished one of the previous batch, and enjoyed it greatly, may I put my name down for at least one of the ten, please?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

You may indeed, and most welcome so. Too late for comparative tastings, but we could view it as a challenge to your tastebuds: compare and contrast, this batch with last. I know, more or less, what I did differently; be interesting to hear how it works.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Ooh! If you can find a way to get a jar southwards I would be delighted. I'm considering making half quantities of our usual apple chutney this year because the apple tree is sulking after its prodigious efforts last year.

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

Dare one request the recipe? I have some chillies, you see, and I'm looking for things to do with them!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

What, chillies of your own growing, did they fruit...?

Recipe. Umph. I did something like this:

Dissolve 500g of light muscovado sugar in a bottle of cider vinegar (500ml, maybe?). Add a tablespoon of ground mace, the same of ground allspice. While it comes to the boil, slice four onions and add those; a handful of garlic cloves, crushed; half a dozen green chillies. And a packet of dried stoned dates, chopped small. And about four pounds of peaches, stoned and chopped into chunks. And a couple of inches of peeled grated ginger. And a couple of tsps of salt. And then boil for, oh, forty-five minutes or so, while it darkens and thickens and mulches. Something like that. Put into sterilised jars, cool and hope. (I haven't tasted it yet...)