Your favourite chutneys!

My late mum's home made chutneys, apple, rhubarb, pear, plum, she also made some good pickles, preserves & awesome mint jelly.
If it grew in the garden, it usually ended up in a jar or bottle, I can remember as a kid large preserve pans bubbling away, & the larder full of jars of homemade goodies.

Making home made pickles, chutneys & preserves seem to have gone some what out of fashion today, but look around the farmer's markets, WI stalls, you can still find some real home made treasures.
 
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At least its alive and well in the small producer market, shame i don't really eat anything that goes with chutneys/pickles as they are awesome.
Probably supermarkets that killed them, what choice and quality do you have.
Just like cakes, got a coffee cake from co-op the the day, bland, dry and horriable. No wonder I hardly ever buy cakes. Not even comparable too home made.
 
I so want cheese, biscuits, canalised onion, chili jam and rhubarb chutney now.
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Sounds immense!

Apricot preserve, cornish blue, water biscuit.
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Hnnnnnng!!!!:D

If it grew in the garden, it usually ended up in a jar or bottle, I can remember as a kid large preserve pans bubbling away, & the larder full of jars of homemade goodies.
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My Dad makes a great tomato, apple and onion chutney all grown in his vege patch :) I want him to start making ketchup
 
I'm not a fan, but my girlfriend loves Mrs H Balls (no giggling at the back) Original Chutney. Bit hard to get in Denmark, so we have to smuggle it over with visiting relatives/friends.
 
Glaucus said:
At least its alive and well in the small producer market, shame i don't really eat anything that goes with chutneys/pickles as they are awesome.
Probably supermarkets that killed them, what choice and quality do you have.
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You do come out with some absolute drivel at times.

From what you've said, anyone would think that chutney and pickles have all but completely disappeared from our nation's supermarket shelves and it's solely down to a few plucky WI members to keep knocking out jars of condiments for cheese-lovers to dollop on their plates.

You're either incredible narrow-minded or have a fantastically small world-view as I know damn well I could walk into any supermarket and find a huge variety of both chutneys and pickles without having to break sweat.

And complaining 'supermarkets that killed them' would seem to be especially daft, given as you quantify that with a statement about how you rarely eat anything that goes with them - if any supermarkets have decreased their range of chutneys and pickles it would purely be down to a general lack of market demand, which you appear to have contributed to!

Glaucus said:
Just like cakes, got a coffee cake from co-op the the day, bland, dry and horriable. No wonder I hardly ever buy cakes. Not even comparable too home made.
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What do you expect from Co-Op? It's hardly the pinnacle of supermarket patisserie, despite an increasing amount of their range being given a makeover and receiving some critical acclaim.

But more pertinently, how can you even begin to compare anything bought in a supermarket, which has to be mass-produced and designed to provide the exact same eating experience time and time again, to something baked at home?
 
You cant get a huge selection in a supermarket, you get a very narrow range of mediocre big brand ones. I didn't say they had totally disappeared. The hole idea of chutneys is pretty much dead in the mass market, and seen pretty much as an accompany to cheese sandwich. And not as an accompany to many many things.

Mass produced stuff doesn't have to be crap and i bet tesco, waitrose, m&s stuff is no better.
And WI lol, farm shops and small producers aren't WI. Go to a farm shop and the collection and diversity is huge.
 
I have a jar of chilli jam at home, and a jar of locally produced mango chutney from a local farm shop. Both are wonderful :)
 
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Looks, tesco finest is far from fine.
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The ingredients look perfectly good to me, a distinct lack of preservatives, flavorings and general nasties. Probably not as nice as home made, but still pretty good.

Unless you are the type of super anal providence chasing foodie snob, that is
 
oulton said:
The ingredients look perfectly good to me, a distinct lack of preservatives, flavorings and general nasties. Probably not as nice as home made, but still pretty good.

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=/ flavour

Tesco finest chutney range is not good at all. Either lacking flavour or totally unbalanced profiles.

Snob? Or just someone who likes decent tasting stuff and don't mind paying the extra. Just being expensive and small producer does not make something good. Look at my comments about cambridge chilli sauces i got last month.
 
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