Category: Preserves

Plum Chutney

.Reading time 9 minutes.

We were running out of chutney. The Green Tomato Chutney I made in September was almost gone. Although I shared Katie Stewart’s advice to wait a month before eating the chutney to allow it to mature, the family barely managed a week. Grandsons Freddie (9) and Ben (6), who’d initially been sceptical that anything made […]

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Green Tomato Chutney

.Reading time 11 minutes.

It’s not been a great summer here in London and already, although autumn doesn’t officially begin until the 22nd, autumnal weather has arrived; conkers fall to the ground from the huge horse chestnut trees on Twickenham Green, and the days are closing in. There’s been a lot of rain and cool temperatures all through ‘summer’. […]

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Organic Seville Orange Marmalade

.Reading time 13 minutes.

This is my second batch of marmalade this year – and we’re only into week 6 of 2024. But actually, if I’m to be completely honest here, as I always try to be, today’s marmalade was really batch 3. Batch 1 was a complete disaster. I’ve been making marmalade for more decades than I’d like […]

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Tomato Chutney

.Reading time 10 minutes.

I had a lot of tomatoes. There were tomatoes on the three small plants in a pot outside my back door. Planted mainly for the benefit of the grandsons but with them away for the summer holidays, there’s no little person around to pick off the ripe cherry tomatoes and pop them straight into their […]

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