Imitation Mango Chutney

Ingredients

• 1 lb of moist sugar
• 4oz. of garlic
• 8oz. of onions
• 12oz. of ground ginger
• 12oz. of mustard-seed
• thirty apples
• 1 J pints of vinegar
• 4oz. of dried chillies

Method

1. 1

   Boil the sugar to a syrup.

2. 2

   Pound garlic, onions, and ginger to a powder.

3. 3

   Wash and dry mustard-seed.

4. 4

   Pare and core apples, boil in vinegar, cool, mix with other ingredients, pour over vinegar, bottle tightly, and it is ready for use.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 456. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Imitation Mango Chutney. — Boil fib. of moist sugar to a syrup (see Syrups) ; pound to a powder 4oz. of garlic, 8oz. of onions, and 12oz. of ground ginger. Put 12oz. of mustard- seed in a little water, wash it well, and dry it (in the sun if possible). Pare and core thirty apples, and boil them in 1 J pints of vinegar ; when done, take out, let them get cold, and mix in with the other ingredients, pouring over J pint of vinegar and adding 4oz. of dried chillies. Stir thoroughly, bottle it, cork down tightly, tie pieces of bladder over the corks, and it is ready for use. Imitation Mango Chutney Sauce. — Peel and core 4oz. of sour apples, and put them into a large jar. Pound in a mortar 4 >z. each of figs, raisins, tomatoes, brown sugar, and a little salt, add them to loz. of chillies (or cayenne), \oz. of ground ginger, Joz. of garlic, and 4oz. of fine fresh shallots. Mix all these well with the apples, and pour in 1 pint of lemon-juice and 3 pints of vinegar. Put the jar in a warm place (about 130 deg. Fahr.) and let it remain for a month, stirring once or twice a day. Pour off the thin liquor at the top and bottle it, put the thick part into wide-mouthed bottles, and it is ready for use. The thin liquor is used for flavouring fish sauce or gravies. Goose- berries may be used if sour apples are not available, but they do not answer the purpose so well. Mangoes— continued. Imitation Pickled Mangoes. — (1) Choose two dozen young musk-melons, cut oft one end, and scrape out all the inside ; tie on the end that was cut off, and put them in some strong brine for a day or so, then rinse them in fresh water and wipe dry. Put 1 pint each of the smallest green peppers, young cucumbers, onions, and green string beans into some brine, let them remain for a day or two, then put them in a saucepan over the fire; as soon as they begin to boil, take them out and drain dry. Add 2oz. of mustard-seed,

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