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I lost my recipe for onion jam, but found one for chilli jam.

The trees and shrubs are looking good for fruits this year. Within a couple of hundred metres there are pears, crab apples, blackberries, bilberries, sloes and hawthorn berries. Any ideas?

You need Debih

I have a fab onion marmalade recipe.

Tell me what you're picking WM and I'll find you a recipe!

Pear cheese is lovely. Crab apple and mint jelly. And I have tried and tested recipes for blackberries, hawthorn and sloes. Not done anything with bilberries but have recipes.


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Thanks Debih.

Crab apples, blackberries and pears, once they drop, will be on the cards. Sloes are a maybe. We used to go 'combing' for bilberries, but you can end up a right mess, so maybe not.

I'll have a look this afternoon and see what I can find.

Cheers.

Debih, do you have a good recipe for green tomato chutney? There are loads of green toms in the greenhouse, and D and I both fancy some chutney. She used to have a recipe but can't find it. I'm going to try my hand at it

Kaz wrote:Debih, do you have a good recipe for green tomato chutney? There are loads of green toms in the greenhouse, and D and I both fancy some chutney. She used to have a recipe but can't find it. I'm going to try my hand at it

I do. I shall find it and post it.

OK - WM

These are the recipes I have (and have done before)

Pears

- spiced pickled pears
- plum and pear chutney
- mulled pears

Blackberries

- blackberry jam
- blackberry and apple gin
- blackberry butter
- hedgerow jelly
- bottled blackberries

Crab Apples

- crab apple jelly
- pickled crab apples

Sloes

- sloe gin or vodka (once done I then use the sloes for jam making)

I also have plenty of recipes that I haven't tried before if you don't fancy any of the above. (I haven't typed any of the recipes up until you say if you fancy them!!)

I also have the River Cottage Fruit book which is bound to have some recipes for pears and blackberries in.

Debih, I have been reading the tomato chutney recipe (one for later) and assume the process is much the same for most jams as well. With the onion and chilli jams I use the 'drop some on a cold plate' method.

So...

Plum and pear chutney
Blackberry jam and
Crab apple jelly
please.

I intend to use crab apple skins for the pectin as there are tons of them about, though I can get jam making sugar if essential.

Thanks so much.