Someone told me that she is making her own Mrs Balls using their original recipe.
So I had a look and indeed found the original recipe shared on their own Homepage!
612 g dried peaches
238 g dried apricots
3 litres brown wine vinegar
2 1/2 kg white sugar
500 g onions
12 g salt
7 g cayenne pepper
1 to 2 litres of brown wine vinegar for soaking
About 2 litres of brown wine vinegar for mixing
The fruit should be left in
the soaking vinegar overnight, then cooked in the same
vinegar until soft. Drain.
Put the fruit through a mill.
Add the sugar
(dissolved) and onions (minced) and cook in a pot with the brown wine vinegar.
The amount of vinegar depends on the consistency: it should not be too runny or
too thick, but have the same consistency as the end product you find in the bottle.
Add spices and cook for one to two hours.
Stir occasionally with a wooden spoon
to prevent burning.
Sterilise your bottles and spoon in the mixture.
That's it
- you've got Mrs Ball's Chutney.
I will definitely give it a try.....
This will make a great gift for some of my friends who are in love with South Africa as well!!!
This will make a great gift for some of my friends who are in love with South Africa as well!!!
Pick me, pick me!
ReplyDeleteCan one substitute brown malt vinegar instead? Where I live brown wine vinegar is not available anywhere. Thank you
ReplyDeleteWe have made this recipe dozens of times - we use a mix of Aspall's red wine and white wine vinegar (the 350 ml bottles - 4-6 red and 1-2 whites). I'm sure you could use other wine vinegar but I think a malt vinegars may be the wrong flavour. I don't know
ReplyDeleteNote the cayenne pepper is FAR too much - we made that mistake the first time and since then cut it right back to about a tenth. Try it and see - you can always add more
I'm also wanting to try this recipe but cant find brown wine vinegar even here in South Africa where Mrs Balls originated. So I'll try the mixture of red and white wine ones - thanjs!
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