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Organic Seville Oranges
Organic Seville Orange Marmalade is an ode to my mother
who, until well into her eighties made every February marmalade.
In our family, tradition dictates that we make our year's supply of marmalade. My sisters & brothers still make marmalade according to our mothers recipe with phrases as five pints of water and not a drop less, rolling boil and sugar must be absolutely heated ingrained in our memories. We all, in our grown up separate lives, hark and hunker back to our youth and the days of our mothers warmth, work and fresh toast dripping with her marmalade. Sun in the depth of winter.
Traditional Organic Marmalade
I had the pleasure last year to visit Jose at Gospa Orange groves in Seville. His enthusiasm and kindness while showing me their family business was inspiring.
Now that Seville orange season is upon us, Jose has sent Wilde Chutney a few crates of organic bitter oranges to make mamalade. And just as my mother's, Wilde Chutney's kitchen is filled with these organic beauties from Seville. Sun with the promise and smell of spring.
Mummys' Organic marmalade is now available
Happy, healthy & Peaceful 2025
This year will bring new recipes with exciting new flavours. Will keep you all posted.
In the meantime I would like to thank all my customers both new and old for their custom and wish you all peace and kindness for the new year!
Gieser Wildeman pear season!
The days are getting shorter and autumn has definitely set in. The kitchen of Wilde Chutney is full with gieser wildeman pears just harvested from Rene, the organic fruit farmer in North Holland. I love going to his farm and harvesting from my adopted pear trees. It was a good crop be it albeit early this year. Rene says it down to the very wet spring and long hot summer.
The first batch of gieser wildeman pear chutney and cordial has been made and is available until stocks last.
My favorite cheese pairing with this chutney is Mont d'or.
Where does Wilde Chutney source her fruit?
Wilde Chutney is proud to announce that the local fruit farmer, Rene van der Aarde, after two years transition has got his organic certification. Congratulations Rene. Great news! Wilde Chutney has adopted 20 fruit trees from Rene and is looking forward to harvest, plums apples & pears for her locally produced and organic chutney. If you want to adopt fruit trees to harvest your own fruit. You can! here is his link with more information. Rene the fruit farmer.
Climate change
We all are aware that climate change is as dramatic and huge as it is complex. Finding solutions to this crises can be overwhelming. Wilde Chutney as a company tries in its own way to minimize the impact on the environment. Nothing is perfect and there is always room for improvement. That is why Urgenda is an organisation that is close to Wilde Chutney's heart. Thinking of solutions and working together. One of their projects that Wilde Chutney supports is stichting behoud en beheer Broekhuizerlaan. For more information about adopting a tree you can click here. adopt a 200 year old tree and of course here is the link for Urgenda