Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Spiced Wild Fruits Chutney

Recipe
1.5kg wild plums
500g cooking apples
2 oranges
200g Sultanas
200g Blackberries
1tsp ground ginger
1tsp ground cinnamon
300ml red wine vinegar
500g demerara sugar

Method:
Remove stones from plums
Peal, core and dice the apples
Grate the Peel from the oranges and squeeze their juice into a large pan.
Add the rest of the ingredients
Heat and stir until Sugar dissolved
Simmer until thick and syrupy
Place in sterilised preserving jars

Notes
This is a modified recipe from http://www.allotment.org.uk/recipe/1049/spiced-plum-chutney-recipe/
One reservation i have is that it does generate a rather sloppy chutney.
It may be better to add the bigger ingredients like the plums or Blackberries almost at the end so they hold their shape better.
To remove (pit) the stones from the wild plums i simply used brute force and pressed the fruit until it burst then fished out the stone.
You soon realise that if the fruit is not ripe the stone will take half the fruit with it but when ripe the stone will be dinstinctly separate.

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