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  • #1

    Xmas hampers!!

    as a relative newbie to the whole veggie growing bit, i was interested to read someone's comment tonight about making chutney for xmas hampers....and, of course, i got to thinking what brilliant xmas presents these would make for family and friends. seems crazy to be thinking about it in April but can definately see the sense in it. So i'm wondering, what some of you guys put in yours to give me some ideas to get started.

    it would be wonderful to be able to share with our family and friends some of our healthy home-grown 'stuff'!

    many thanks

    laura
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    You can have some of mine out of the cupboard. Mum makes tons of Plum Chutney etc and we get loads (but don't eat much)

    What I do like is Chilli Jam, but she hasn't grown enough chillies yet to make some. http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/7...ato-chilli-jam
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    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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    • #3
      I haven't got a garden fit for producing much, so I do crab apple jelly, marmalade (lemon usually, or 'St Clements', everyone does seville orange!), and if I can find enough small bottles, sloe gin. I also make sweets (a bit of a speciality of mine anyway)
      Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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      • #4
        i did hampers last year..... jams, pickles, chutney, pickled cabbage, and some eldberberry vodka. They went down a treat and I think people were impressed that it was all home made. I did buy some nicer jars for the stuff I put in hampers rather than just using the old ones I use normally, and did some labels on the PC which made a nice touch. I also read a tip somewhere and picked up some old school dresses at a car boot/charity shop (gingham checked ones) and cut those up into circles for covering the lids.
        The love of gardening is a seed once sown never dies ...

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        • #5
          I always make Bramble Jelly because they're free, last year I went to a PYO farm and made heaps of strawberry jam too.
          We make a lot of wine, with hedgerow ingredients like elderflowers & berries, more brambles, gooseberries, rhubarb.
          Fruit vodka & sloe gin.
          Lots of chilli & tomato sauces, chutneys & pickles.
          Homemade fudge, mini Christmas cakes, mince pies with homemade mincemeat.

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          • #6
            I've done various jams, chutneys, mini Christmas puddings and cakes but was thinking of possibly branching out this year and am intending to make some Rhubarb Schnapps and possibly some Raspberry Vodka also.

            Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

            Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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            • #7
              I made onion marmalade, and courgette chutney last year. Gave a load of the chutney away at Christmas and everyone I gave it to loved it. Both recipes were from this site.

              My first attempt on both cases.
              A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

              BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

              Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.

              What would Vedder do?

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              • #8
                I lover to make butters and will be making jams this year as well as fruit wines. Some examples:

                Pumpkin Butter
                Plum butter
                chutneys of all kinds
                homemade tomato sauces
                jams of all kinds
                blackberry wine
                orange vodka
                flavoured gins
                etc
                Peaceful days are in the garden!

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                • #9
                  Plum gin (the years the plum tree produces well) summer fruit gin, from the PYO, home pickled beetroot, pickled gherkins, jam of various sorts depending on what fruit I can get, chutney - apple or pear and date or ginger, curried pickled onions (a South African specialty) and anything else I've forgotten.

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                  • #10
                    If it doesn't run away - I pickle it, beetroot and baby silverskin onions have always been appreciated as well as raspberry jam. I'm going to attempt gherkins this year so guess what will happen to them! Flavoured butters is novel, I may give that a go, perhaps with a nice stamp on it.

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                    • #11
                      these are brilliant folks - many thanks. Doubt if I'll be anywhere as good as you guys but I'll certainly plan to have some fun trying recipes out!

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                      • #12
                        Thats the half of it Scottishnewbie just relax, have fun and most of all enjoy; people can taste the difference too
                        Peaceful days are in the garden!

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