ADAPT recipe: September Chutney

A good chutney to use up a glut of fruit:

Ingredients
1.4kg. (alb) fruit, all or either blackberries, damsons, elderberries, plums, apple.
450g. (alb) onions, chopped
1tsp. salt
1tsp of all or either ginger, mustard, mace. Cayenne pepper.
1/2pt liquid – water, wine, beer, cider.
1/2pt vinegar
450g (1lb) sugar

Method
Remove stalks from fruit, peel core chop apples, put in pan with liquid, boil for 30min, till soft.
Rub through a sieve to remove seeds, stones, skin.
Put back in pan with all other ingredients.
Add sugar and stir till sugar dissolved.
Simmer till thick and no extra liquid on top.
Pour in to hot sterile jars.

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