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Hi, Les. I have just made some chutney using this recipe. It is Hugh Fearnley-Whatnot (sorry, Whittingstall)'s recipe for Glutney, the third one down the page. You can use whatever you have on hand, in whatever proportions. I leave out the chilli as I don't like hot chutney, and use pears instead of some/all of the apples. It is much better with pears.

Pear butter is another possibility, but that needs a lot of cooking and stirring unless you do it in a microwave. Here is a recipe that gives a variety of ways to cook it. The one I use for apple butter includes spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, I think) and uses larger quantities. I assume that the odd reference to pumpkin in the recipe means it was adapted from a pumpkin recipe and can be ignored.

And here is Kate's recipe for pear mincemeat. For once I copied a recipe with proper reference so I could find it again!

Pickled pears, very good... but I don't know where my recipe is.  I will need to find it soon, before the final pears need using.

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