The first item I decided to make was a chutney, for this I turned to Nigella's Christmas book and found a recipe for Cranberry & Apple chutney - perfect & christmassy! Also really easy to do! It's definitely not just an old woman thing! Us mere 30 yr olds can have a bash too! (least that's what I'll keep telling myself lol)
Just bung all the ingredients in the pan and away we go!
Just starting to sweat down a bit now and take on the signature chutney colour!
Here it is all ready for potting in my sterilised jars.
Jars are from ikea £1.89 for pack of 4 very good value and they look pretty too!
To sterilize the jars I just washed them in the dishwasher and then put in the oven to dry at 140 I think it was, note: don't put the lids in the oven if you get these jars from Ikea it's a plastic lid not metal - I learnt the hard way! :-)
All potted up in jars
I bought a "fat square" of Christmas material from eBay to put on top of my lids to make them look a bit more festive!
Here they are all finished and labelled up.
I added a bit of gold metallic curling ribbon before putting them into my gift baskets
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