Another busy day of Jams, chutneys and pickles
First up - Autumn Chutney, now this stuff is sublime, only made 3 litres of it in the end
all the raw ingredients in a preserving pan
no water is added as the ingredients have enough in them anyway, plus you need to add a pint of pickling vinegar
cooking down nicely
after a a while a lot of the water has evaporated and the chutney has reduced to a stage where it's just about right for bottling up
next project, Pear & Orange jelly (this is a soft jelly & lovely on ice cream)
all mixed up with the sugar, the pears have broken down to a mush, but we also used a hander blender to reduce some of the more "stubborn" pieces and the orange pieces down a tad
then the same as any other jam, just boil it until it reaches it's setting point and bottle up
Only three jars (3/4lb a piece) of this, cant do any more as, between this and the chutney above we used most of the Pears we had outside in the garden, still have a few left, but those are destined for the fruit bowl.
After lunch, the boys, my sister and I, went up the lane and collected 3lb of Elderberries and a few pounds of Blackberries, the Elderberries were used to make some more Elderberry Pickle and the blackberries, some went into the Blackberry Gin we are doing to top up the fruit, the rest got put insde a two litre Kilner jar and covered with syrup, so we have some wonderful berries to eat in puddings, pies and crumbles during the colder months to come, oh yes, we also pulled the last of the Beetroot in the garden and pickled that for Christmas tea.
Think that was about it for today
First up - Autumn Chutney, now this stuff is sublime, only made 3 litres of it in the end
all the raw ingredients in a preserving pan
no water is added as the ingredients have enough in them anyway, plus you need to add a pint of pickling vinegar
cooking down nicely
after a a while a lot of the water has evaporated and the chutney has reduced to a stage where it's just about right for bottling up
next project, Pear & Orange jelly (this is a soft jelly & lovely on ice cream)
all mixed up with the sugar, the pears have broken down to a mush, but we also used a hander blender to reduce some of the more "stubborn" pieces and the orange pieces down a tad
then the same as any other jam, just boil it until it reaches it's setting point and bottle up
Only three jars (3/4lb a piece) of this, cant do any more as, between this and the chutney above we used most of the Pears we had outside in the garden, still have a few left, but those are destined for the fruit bowl.
After lunch, the boys, my sister and I, went up the lane and collected 3lb of Elderberries and a few pounds of Blackberries, the Elderberries were used to make some more Elderberry Pickle and the blackberries, some went into the Blackberry Gin we are doing to top up the fruit, the rest got put insde a two litre Kilner jar and covered with syrup, so we have some wonderful berries to eat in puddings, pies and crumbles during the colder months to come, oh yes, we also pulled the last of the Beetroot in the garden and pickled that for Christmas tea.
Think that was about it for today
Roughly how much will the recipe make? I have some jars, but maybe I need a few more. 
