Please suggest me a present in a jar!

lisa26_2

Delicious magazine this month has some good homemade presents in and they include a jar of pasta sauce and a jar of nice pesto.

Generali

ThatElliottGirl wrote: »

Hi all...I've been lurking for a while on this board, but have never quite plucked up the courage to say anything! Was hoping some of you wise people could help me with a bit of a problem...

This year, my family are coming up to me and my hubby for Christmas, and it's traditional in our family to have "dinner time presents"; everyone gets a little present to open at the table, and they all have to be on a theme. My family all like homemade presents, so I've gone for presents in a jar. So far, my brother in law is getting a chocolate cake in a jar (just the ingredients) and I've done pickled onions for my dad. But I'm stuck for my mum and sister and thought you might have some bright ideas for me (please!)

My mum loves chutney, so I'd like to make her some. I've had a couple of goes before, but never made anything I think she'd like. If anyone has got a good recipe, preferably with ginger in, and good with strong cheese, I'd love to have it!

My sister is a student in her second year of uni, and loves sauces in jars! I've never made anything like this before, so am not sure if it's even possible! She loves meat, pasta, cheese and spicy food, so if anyone has any ideas for a sauce that I could make and jar and it would keep for a couple of weeks? If that's not possible, please feel free to suggest a better idea!

Thank you in advance, and sorry if I've waffled on...

For your Mum, Delia's Christmas Chutney is an excellent recipe.

For your sister, fruit vodka? 1/2 bottle of vodka topped up with pur!ed berries.

zippychick

Hi Elliotgirl, welcome and keep posting!

There is a thread here - gift in a jar ideas. Some really cool ones . Nigella has a dry pancake recipe i think you add milk and eggs to - so you could always do something like that, with some dried berries and some chocolate buttons to mix in the pancakes? x

pancakes in a jar

Seakay

If you use a hot 'pop top' jar and put the contents in hot and put the lid on at once then it should vacuum seal and last for several months.

Patchwork_Quilt

Seakay wrote: »

If you use a hot 'pop top' jar and put the contents in hot and put the lid on at once then it should vacuum seal and last for several months.

I would sterilise it too, just to make sure.

aliadds

There is a lovely idea on the BBC Good Food website for christmas muffin mix. All the dry ingredients are layered in the jar and just need wet ingredients added. The jar has a wooden spoon attached as well as the 'method'.
Going to try this myself when i get hold of some kilner jars!

charlies-aunt

What a lovely original Christmas idea!

How about layering different coloured pulses / rices to make a vegetarian casserole or soup mix?

MrsE_2

ThatElliottGirl wrote: »

My mum loves chutney, so I'd like to make her some. I've had a couple of goes before, but never made anything I think she'd like. If anyone has got a good recipe, preferably with ginger in, and good with strong cheese, I'd love to have it!

My sister is a student in her second year of uni, and loves sauces in jars! I've never made anything like this before, so am not sure if it's even possible! She loves meat, pasta, cheese and spicy food, so if anyone has any ideas for a sauce that I could make and jar and it would keep for a couple of weeks? If that's not possible, please feel free to suggest a better idea!

Thank you in advance, and sorry if I've waffled on...

How about a mango chutney or a tomato salsa to go with your sisters spicy food:D

Fab idea by the way.

MrsE_2

Zazen999 wrote: »

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/season-taste/special-green-tomato-chutney_2551.html

This is Earthbabe's Green Tomato Chutney which is the nicest I've ever made; but on the same forum is Red Onion Marmalade which I can safely say is lush with strong cheese; having been given some by the Legend that is Piglet Willie. Yummy. Plus plenty of other preserve ideas to go at. And passata; which I made last year and bottled up; extreme yumminess.

I bet that is lovely with a strong cheddar:drool:

tara747

I totally agree with the flavoured vodka idea! Even better - you can use a cheap vodka and nobody will know

Love the chutney recipes!!!