Please suggest me a present in a jar!

HariboJunkie

These look pretty good and you can use whatever filling suits.

foxgloves

Someone mentioned the BBC Food Christmas Muffin mix in a jar. I made this one year (itw as in their magazine) & tied a bow round the top to attach a wooden spoon & gave it to my Dad who had just retired and wanted to learn to cook. He made the muffins and they were lovely, so for anyone wanting to do this present in a jar, I can recommend it.

Seakay

Patchwork_Quilt wrote: »

I would sterilise it too, just to make sure.

Sorry, when I said "hot" I should perhaps have more correctly said "heated with boiling water and dried in the oven"

Primrose

One sauce in a jar that is very popular in our house is home-made pesto which is great for stirring into pasta or onto toast/pizzas. It tastes far better than the commercial stuff which always seems to have an acrid taste. There are probably lots of recipes on the internet but you do need a blender or stick blender for whizzing up all the ingredients. If you put the pesto into small glass jars with metal screw top lids, these can be stored in the freeze untill needed and then kept in the fridge once opened.

Primrose

Or you could buy a block of marzipan from the cake-making section of the supermarket, cut it into two chunks, add a little red or green food colouring to the different chunks, and roll them into festive marzipan "marbles". Tie the jar with a colourful red or green ribbon. Far cheaper than all those marzipan fruits you pay a fortune for.

Verbatim

Delia's Xmas chutney (already suggested above I know) and tapenade for your sister. Can be almost anything whizzed in food processor but i use a tin of anchovies including the oil, black olives and some capers with possibly some sun dried toms. sounds a lovely idea for a family tradition.

23rdspiral

i'm sure i remember last year, or the year before, there was a bit of a thing on US craft blogs about baking muffins actually inside the jar and giving as an unusual gift. i'll have a look and see if i can find one...

23rdspiral

ok, so i might have dreamt about actually baking the muffin in a jar.

but there's a bunch of nice ideas here:http://www.squawkfox.com/2008/12/02/holiday-gifts-8-homemade-gifts-in-a-jar-with-free-printable-gift-tags/
AND it gives nice print-out-able lables/tags for the jars too!

i will try the Chai Tea in a Jar, and the Chicken Noodle would be great for an ill friend anytime. I'm glad i looked - thanks!

Roo3471

try recipezaar.com/The-Almost-Original-Branston-Pickle-Recipe-246675

I made this yesterday and my kids and OH thought it was so delicious, I made another huge batch up tonight. I now have about a dozen jars, some of which are going to be christmas pressies

Butterfly_Brain

This is an American Site but it has lots of great ideas and recipes
http://www.homemade-gift-basket-ideas.com/homemade-gifts-in-a-jar.html