Made my own chutney

[nickyboy]

I loves me chutney I do.....so when the folks across the road offered me a load of their apples last week I decided to have a go at making a batch.
Here is the result. Used the BBC good food guide apple chutney recipe. The difficulty is deciding how much sugar to add because this is determined by how sweet or sour your apples are. I also found I had no jars (it made 4 jars worth). Cheapest solution was to go to Tesco, buy their economy brand strawberry jam. Throw jam away, keep jar. At 29p per jar, it was cheaper than buying empty jars. Didn't like throwing out a load of cheap jam but there you go.
They reckon it will improve for a couple of months in the jar. I doubt I will be able to last that long. And now the house smells of lovely apples, raisins, spices etc

 

[Spinney]

I made some of that the other week - lovely!
I have plastic boxes of stewed apple in the fridge, and frozen strawberries and raspberries from the garden in the freezer, all waiting for me to collect enough jars to make them into jam. Never thought of the Tesco Jar Trick!

 

[Beebo]

how do you get the jars to stick to the wall without falling off?

 

[biggs682]

anybody want some green tomatoes for chutney making ?

 

[nickyboy]

how do you get the jars to stick to the wall without falling off?

The jars were easy, it was the chairs behind them that were a challenge

 

[Arch]

Chutney is on my list of stuff to make, so far it's just been jam - I've got about 30 jars of various sizes of Blackberry and Apple (jam and jelly), rosehip jelly, hawthorn jelly, two varieties of crabapple jelly (one with York apples, one with Manchester ones), and apple, raisin and cinnamon jam.

There are about 3 more kilos of blackberries in the freezer, and some figs, and lots more apples and crab apples to forage. Also sloes, for gin. And I've got my eye on some pears to pickle.

Fortunately, in my job, jam jars are not hard to come by.

 

[Dayvo]

so far it's just been jam -

Fortunately, in my job, jam jars are not hard to come by.

I was going to say, that if you needed jam jars, just buy the jam and DON'T throw it away. Then you'll have both jam and jars and won't have to make any at all!