Mrs Walton’s Apple Chutney

Another recipe from the little old recipe book my friend has let me look at. All the recipes are handwritten in what must have been an invoice record and account book. Never used for that, it’s full of recipes in differnt hands, including this one:

Mrs Walton’s Apple Chutney

• 4 lbs apples
• 2 oz garlic
• 2 ? (pounds or ounces?) demerara sugar
• 1¼ lbs raisons
• 2 oz mustard seed
• 1 oz ground ginger
• 1 oz salt
• ¼ oz cayenne pepper or to taste
• 3 pints vinegar

1. Boil

So simple!!! This is yet another example of how British cooks used garlic and spices in everyday recipes – before French and continental cookery became popular!