20 August 2009

Jam and Chutney


As I have been off work for a couple of weeks, and it is bumper crop time, the preserving pan has been busy again. As well as the raspberry jam, plum jam, mint jelly and Mango, peach, apple and sultana spicy chutney, I have now made a batch of red, white and black current cheese and what has been labeled as 'mixed fruit chutney'.

I took the opportunity to make a start on having a clear out of the kitchen cupboards (mainly to make room for all the jam and chutney) and as well as finding about 20 jars of unlabelled chutney and 5 jars of beetroot that I didn't know I had, I found that there was quite a selection of dried fruit that we crying out to be used up. Along with some onions that wouldn't store and some of the apples that are still sitting in a bucket in the middle of the kitchen, I made 'mixed fruit chutney. I seem to remember that there were sultanas, apricots, almonds, and jar of something without a label that looked like raisins.

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