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RECIPE OF THE MONTH
pestilence and disease and for agricultural research. She went from the arable to
the animal side of farming, asking for a blessing on all animals, their carers and
Thanks to our WI members for sharing their favourites vets, in whose hands they are tendered.
I would have liked to have been able to have rewritten the whole service for you
all to have read but perhaps you will come in future to hear it first hand.
Now we are getting to the season of salads and BBQs, I thought that
this chutney is just perfect. I love it with cheese and cold meats but Now back to our natural land, that we can see around us, the beauty of it and
goes with anything. As it is best to leave for a few weeks to mature the wonderful things we receive from it. What a wonderful two weeks we have
before eating, I would get making ASAP. just experienced at the start of May! Temperatures have been higher than
normally expected yet warm rains have also still been prevalent. This has led to

the mass development and transformation of our plants, as their leaves
Spicy Apple Chutney developed and with so many different hues of green dependent on so the many
different species of plants and trees. It’s a wonderfully colourful world, with its

seemingly acres of bluebells in all their brilliance and the great lengths of
Recipe hedgerows of hawthorn with their masses of pure white blossom over their well
 Fresh ginger about 2 inches developed green leaves. This is so different from their very close relative the
peeled and shredded blackthorn, which I mentioned last month as having a covering of white blossom
 3lbs Cooking Apples before any leaves had appeared. What a wonderful world we live in. May we
 11/2 lbs onions chopped learn to keep it this way.
 2 cloves of garlic finely chopped As we move around the countryside we see fields of wonderful, green growth
 1lb Demerara Sugar every where. This is not of course simply grass on which the livestock is fed but in
 4 red chillies chopped and deseeded most cases, the growing
 8oz raisins cereal crops. These
crops are of course
 450ml Malt vinegar easily recognised and
 1tbsp sea salt identified when the
 1 tsp Turmeric “floweri n g” he ads
appear but how do we

identify the crop prior to
Method this time? While at
1. Peel and chop the apples and onions and put in a large pan, agricultural college I was
along with garlic, raisins and vinegar taught this wonderful
2. Peel and finely chop/grate the ginger and add. verse:
3. Bring to the boil then turn down and simmer for 20mins until Wheat has whiskers.
softened, stirring occasionally. Barley’s bare,
4. Add the sugar and stir on low until dissolved, then simmer for And oats have no
approx 40 minutes until thick. auricles.
5. Halve the chillies, remove the seeds and slice very finely. Add to This is of course O.K. if you know what an auricle is. Well in fact this is easily
the pan and simmer for 10 minutes. rectified. Some plants have at the base of their leaves relatively small growths
6. Stir in salt and turmeric and then transfer to jars and seal. each side of the stem, these are the “auricles”. So you see the important things
you were taught during your three years at agricultural college in my day. If there
7. It is best to leave for a few weeks to mature then enjoy
weren’t auricles, the cereal crop was in all probabilities oats, if there were auricles
with hairs on, then the crop was wheat and if there were hairless auricles the crop

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