Friday Plan B

We awoke to torrential rain and wind, so had a late breakfast and a leisurely morning while I played with photos for TP 117 ' Parallel'.     After a quick trip to the supermarket we came home for lunch and then spent the rest of the afternoon making Quince Chutney.  Oh and while it was cooking I sneaked some time to create The Scotsman ;-)

We have a quince tree in the garden (you might have seen the photo in my short tour of the garden) which this year yielded just over 50 good sized fruit.  Half of them went to a friend to make quince jelly - I refuse to make anything that involves an upside-down chair and a muslin bag - and after baking a few we were left with enough for a few jars of chutney.

It is a pear chutney recipe adapted and includes: green tomatoes, onions, raisins, demarera sugar, malt vinegar, cayenne pepper, ground ginger and salt'n'pepper. The tomatoes and onions came from the garden, I found a lovely little heart shaped tomato:

Mr H. nobly took on the job of peeling and chopping the quinces; they are very hard on the hands, I know this from previous years of doing it all for jam and chutney.



This mixture looked tasty enough to eat raw!

After about 5 hours of simmering, it was cooked and the liquid boiled off:

Out of just over 6lb of quinces we made 11lb of chutney.Yum.

So it wasn't a wasted day at all :-)