Chutney is a combination of fresh, dried fruits and spices preserved for the winter in natures own preservatives, sugar and vinegar. Over the years chutney making has become a factory process and much flavour and variety lost. Crellow chutneys are made in very small batches, in domestic preserving pans and left to mature for two to three months before being allowed out to retailers!
Thanks to EU madness we are obliged to tell you to keep it refrigerated once opened and eat before a certain date. For centuries before refrigeration chutney was left in a cool dark cupboard to mature and like fine wine gains much from this process. We would like to give you a best after date, but a combination of Environmental Health and Trading Standards Officers prevents us!
The first Crellow chutney; Bramley apples, onions, Demerara sugar a of lemon rind and juice and a few sultanas. Light in texture, cheese aficionados tell us this is the one for cheese. A good place to start if you are a novice at chutney! Available all year.
Amongst our most popular chutneys, light coloured delicate, with a ginger kick, warm ginger as opposed to hot ginger. Excellent with bacon, pork and hard cheeses. A number of 'eaters' have told us they like it on toast as a marmalade. Goes well in toasted sandwiches! Available all year.
A fruity, light brown chutney, with a few added walnuts. We use reconstituted dried apricots to give a good flavour. Popular and multi-purpose. Available all year.
Our most popular line, brown with highlights! A minced, rather than chopped, chutney thick and spreadable. It goes well with everything. High dried mixed fruit content and preserved stem ginger. The three teenage boys in our home adore this. We recently met the daughter of the Father whose recipe this was - a wonderful homecoming for us! Available all year.
Spicy apple chutney! Apples, red chillies sometimes grown in Tregony, Demerara sugar and cider vinegar, a light goldeny green colour with red flecks! Very popular with the men! Great with pasties (what a crime!) or other meat and potato dishes. Probably better with meat than cheese! Available all year.
A brown glossy chutney, very fruity, warm, sweetish spicy, mixed dried and fresh fruits including mango. Good with hard cheeses - especially run of the mill supermarket ones in need a bit of cheering up. This is the Chutney maker's favourite. Available all year and increasingly popular.
A premium product, not stringy but a bright natural orange colour. White wine vinegar, orange rind and juice mean flavour and colour remain. Almost one mango in every jar - 8 mangoes per batch making 9 jars! Use with curry, try with poultry, duck or game. Add a spoonful to any gravy or sauce for chicken. We aim to make this available all year, but the mangoes have to be good enough quality to start with and there will be some disruption to supplies at times.
A traditional dark plum chutney, made with English Victoria Plums, lovely and fruity and goes well with almost anything. Again a poor crop will mean low stocks. Seasona - usually mid available November - June.
A popular brown chutney! A rich combination of Apples, Conference pears and dried reconstituted apricots, raisins, grated lime rind and some ginger. As good with cheese as meats, excellent spooned into a hot well buttered baked potato and left to sink in! Available most of the year but if the Pear harvest is poor this will be in shorter supply.
Taste of the West Gold Award winner 2006
In Paradise Chutney quince is mixed with fresh and dried cranberries, looking dotted-with-jewels, citrus rind and juice and gentle spicing of cinnamon give an incredible flavour, Taste of the West judges said of it, 'A marriage made in heaven'!
Excellent with poultry and cheese, a flavour that doesn't overpower, lovely with pork chops or sausages and venison or game. A king of a product we are very proud of! Sourcing the quinces is the hardest jobs in our calendar but we only use English ones, and the crop is notoriously unreliable. Take it while we have it!
Lord of the Isles Chutney
The Lord of the Isles refers to the rare variety of Cornish apple grown for us by Cornish Orchards at Duloe. 57% of the ingredients in this chutney are grown in Cornwall. Excellent with cheese, Cornish of course!, and ham. Available most of the year
