Evening all, I Was talking to my other half (her in doors) about jams & chutney, What it was is that we had visitors round the other evening and to be honest we're as different as chalk & cheese, We really like the countrylife, the peace perfect peace of life and our visitors like crowds, big shops, packed pubs, and the wife of our visitors wont cook or bake or anything like that, Everything is pkt ready made or eat out. Anyway as the evening went on my wife went into the kitchen and made some light snacks, ie crackers, cheese home made bread, home made cake, and she asked me to go into the workshop and get a few jars of chutney & jam, (we have one of those 1960's kitchen free standing larders "the ones with a draw bridge door/work top & its the storage place for all the jams etc" Anyway after we'd all eaten our visitor's wife asked if we had a spare jar of the jam & chutney as she really liked them and she can't buy it here. I said we have'nt bought jams :chutney for years as we make our own. I was told that they'd tried but it all went wrong, the jam didnt go stiff "set" and the chutney went all black in the jar after a few weeks. My wife was telling me the reasons these mistakes had come about, It was because of the way they tried to make the jams/chutney but inspite of being told what type of pans & spoons etc to use they took no notice and didnt manage to get the jams to set because they didnt follow the rules, And the chutney went black because the jar was'nt sealed properly 'tight' I asked how old the chutney was we had eaten last night, 2006 was the reply & everything was home grown. So it goes to show the making of jams/chutney etc is all down to the kit used and the way the foods are heated and stored.
best chutney I have had is a South African one made from yellow cling peaches .... called Mrs Balls Chutney and some Tesco's sell it for £1.67 a bottle have tried the Indian mango chutneys etc, but does not even come close IMHO Buy Mrs Ball's Original Recipe Chutney (470g) online in Tesco at mySupermarket
Yes that offten happens, its a bit like pubs, when we lived in mid wales we use to pop in this old fashioned pub, it had little rooms and even the bar was small "15 people and it was packed but you could see and talk to people in the snug through a hole in the wall window, Anyway the owner's we're to old sisters and one of them died and the other one sold the pub and a week after she sold it she died, The new younger owners gutted the place put the prices up and it was never as good as when the old dears had it, even the pies these new people sold didnt hold a candle to the old dears pies and yet the new owners swore blind they came from the same supplier. Some times its best leave well alone "whats that saying " if its not bust dont fix it":nono:
A man buys a hamster from a pet shop, takes it home and puts it in a cage. However, within a couple of days it is dead. Unwilling to waste the body, the man cuts it up, boils it up with sugar and makes a pot of jam out of it. Not surprisingly it tastes foul. He throws the jam out of the window in disgust. The next morning a huge daffodil has appeared where the jam was thrown. Excitedly, the man rushes back to the pet shop to tell the assistant about this strange development. Assistant says: But Sir that's impossible. YOU GET TULIPS FROM HAMSTER JAM.
