Today we made Plum & Chilli Chutney, ready to mature for our next fair on 25th of this month (Groby Street Fair and Ceilidh.) For anyone who has never made chutney, be warned - the smell is so pungent it makes your eyes water. A mixture of hot vinegar, spices and enormous amounts of chopped onions, chilli peppers and assorted veg fill the whole house with it's evil stench, even if you shut all doors tightly...phewwwwwww ! Windows wide open, back door ajar, and still it lingers! It takes 7 hours to cook down, which seems to be forever when you're flippin' chokin' on hot vinegar fumes! Hopefully tomorrow we can take the gas masks off ! We did lose the budgie for a while, but he tasted better when we fished him out.
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