Today I am functionally left handed. Since I am usually heavily right handed this means I have all the dexterity of a dead walrus* so it's a bit frustrating.
At the weekend we were at a friends and since there was no chance of them now ripening and he being awash with a bumper crop already we brought home a carrier bag full of green tomatos.
Since we are a savoury lot we are heavy users of chutney so I decided to make some spiced chutney, basically boiling up the following until you could see the base of the pan when the spoon was slowly dragged across the bottom. Even none matured it's rather good.
Green tomatoes – 4lb roughly liquidised.
Apples – near 2lb peeled, cored and chopped fine
Ginger – about 2 level table spoons
chillies – about 2 lids full of Asdas mild stuff
Paprika - 1 heaped teaspoon
Sultanas – bit over a pound rough chopped
Dates - best quality, stones removed and rough chopped 1lb
Onions – 1lb chopped fine
Shallots - 1 lb nearly, chopped fine
Salt – 2 tablespoons coarse sea salt
Coarse ground black pepper - 1 heaped table spoon
Demerara sugar – half a pound
Dark brown sugar ( muskavra?) - little over a pound
Malt vinegar – 2.5 pints
Hendersons Relish - about a third of a bottle.
It took about 4 hours to boil down with pretty constant stirring when I wasn't chopping and adding stuff. The next day it was brought back to the boil and kept there while the jars heated up in a water bath in the oven, say 45 mins more stirring, at this point it had been come quite painful so I had to finish left handed. Bizarrely the mixture had reduced so it barely filled 3 two pound Kilner jars! More worrying today I am popping ibuprofen and rubbing Deep Heat into my wrist and I can't even open a door with it without squealing like a stuck pig!
So there you are my first Chutney Related Injury. In about a month we should have some decent, peppy, vinegary chutney. Not quite eye watering but with a bit more bite than the bought stuff!
ATB
Tom
* and possibly the look and smell.
At the weekend we were at a friends and since there was no chance of them now ripening and he being awash with a bumper crop already we brought home a carrier bag full of green tomatos.
Since we are a savoury lot we are heavy users of chutney so I decided to make some spiced chutney, basically boiling up the following until you could see the base of the pan when the spoon was slowly dragged across the bottom. Even none matured it's rather good.
Green tomatoes – 4lb roughly liquidised.
Apples – near 2lb peeled, cored and chopped fine
Ginger – about 2 level table spoons
chillies – about 2 lids full of Asdas mild stuff
Paprika - 1 heaped teaspoon
Sultanas – bit over a pound rough chopped
Dates - best quality, stones removed and rough chopped 1lb
Onions – 1lb chopped fine
Shallots - 1 lb nearly, chopped fine
Salt – 2 tablespoons coarse sea salt
Coarse ground black pepper - 1 heaped table spoon
Demerara sugar – half a pound
Dark brown sugar ( muskavra?) - little over a pound
Malt vinegar – 2.5 pints
Hendersons Relish - about a third of a bottle.
It took about 4 hours to boil down with pretty constant stirring when I wasn't chopping and adding stuff. The next day it was brought back to the boil and kept there while the jars heated up in a water bath in the oven, say 45 mins more stirring, at this point it had been come quite painful so I had to finish left handed. Bizarrely the mixture had reduced so it barely filled 3 two pound Kilner jars! More worrying today I am popping ibuprofen and rubbing Deep Heat into my wrist and I can't even open a door with it without squealing like a stuck pig!
So there you are my first Chutney Related Injury. In about a month we should have some decent, peppy, vinegary chutney. Not quite eye watering but with a bit more bite than the bought stuff!
ATB
Tom
* and possibly the look and smell.
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