Anyone Else Makeing Pickles And Preserves?

[Tiercel 6,986]

So far I have been a busy little old man, I have made pickled onions beetroot and cabbage. Runner bean chutney, sweet picalilly and beetroot chutney. I went to make some branston pickle but with the amount of ingredients that go into it you could buy 20 jars of the stuff.

 

Anyone else made anything?

 

TC

[air gun ant 1,666]

i do garlic and chilli pickled eggs all year round

[shellfish 63]

have you got a recipe for your beetroot chutney bud

atb

[Tiercel 6,986]

I make a simplified version of beetroot chutney.

 

1.5 kilos peeled beetroot diced or pulsed in a blender.

2 medium cooking apples peeled cored and diced small

2 medium onions diced small

300g of sugar brown or white

1pint of malt vinegar white or brown

1 teaspoon of ground ginger

1 teaspoon of salt.

 

Just place all the ingredients in a large pan, bring to the boil then simmer with the lid off till it starts thickening. Or till you can draw a wooden spoon through the mixture and the grove it makes stay for a little while.

 

One importent part is the jars have to be sterile put them in the oven @ 130c for 20 minutes and don't for get the lids I put those in a saucepan of boiling water and pull one out as needed.

 

The ingredients are not set in stone you can add anything that takes your fancy really.

 

Edited to add: Cooked beetroot is 44p for 500g in Aldis at the moment.

 

TC

Edited October 25, 2013 by tiercel