My next experiment

Thanks! This was definitely a success, should have made more!

@Fleura You're welcome. So, next time you'll know to make more or give less of it away.

@Fleura thank you so much. I love recipes from bbc good food

@Archie0 It always seems to be reliable, in my experience.

Both sweet and spicy This is the recipe I used, if you search the site you will find many more recipes for chutney and relish

@Fleura There is a possibility for the stuff fermenting because of the sugar. Just wondering.

@allknowing It never does, I don't know exactly how it all works. Magic?

As you say it will store for a long time, two or three years or even more. After many years it won't taste so good, so best not to store it more than five years or so! I guess it is the sugar that preserves it? That and the air-tight seal. The recipe is here

@Fleura Mango and gingembre chutney was an interesting discovery, I love it.

@LadyDuck That sounds good, I will be looking out for a box of reduced mangoes

I am discovering many new recipes right now!

Lucky you, wish you were closer! We have two pear trees but got a total of two or three misshapen tiny pears this year - and that was an improvement on the previous two years! Hardly any plums either. Luckily we still have some in the freezer from last year. I recommend the BBC Good Food site as a starting point for all sorts of recipes, the ones I've tried have all been good. My go-to book for jams of all kinds is always an ancient copy of 'The WI book of jams and preserves' which I bought for 10p at a jumble sale about 30 years ago. You might be able to pick one up if you're interested. The only downside to the book is that it doesn't give you any clues as to how you might use the preserves, so for some of the less obvious ones you're not sure if you should put them in a cheese sandwich or use them to fill a sponge cake!

@58lordstreet I bet you get lots of lovely fresh fruit there - apricots?

@Fleura Im in spain actually was surprised how well pears do here- its only a 5 ft high one as well

It's basically like a jam with added vinegar I think!

I do like a tasty chutney in a ham or cheese sandwich, or on the side with a curry. But some are so tasty I could just eat them without bothering with the ham! I have read that it's good to add a dollop to a casserole too, but I haven't tried that yet.

Thank you, and hello! Glad to see you, haven't seen you for a while

I never thought of using grapes but it works well!

Oh gosh, I can't imagine that reaction! Don't you like any preserves of that type, like HP sauce or Branston pickle?

@Ronrybs I won't bring you any then!

@Fleura Never touche 'em, even the smell of HP puts me off

Oh yes I have several more to tell you about!

@Fleura Sounds very exciting.