Hello everyone,
I decided to make cranberry chutney from the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving.
In the recipe, there is a cup amount with ml in parenthesis. For example, the recipe says 1.5 cup or 750 ml. When I weighed 1.5 cups of fresh cranberries, it was about 325 ml.
So I ended up doing the recipe by weight and I ended up with 9 jars instead of 6.
Plus, I'm new to canning and I'm not sure what chutney really looks like. 😰
So does the chutney look okay? I took the picture after I put the cans in the water bath, it was runnier before I put the chutney in the jars. It does taste really good.
Sorry for the long explanation.
by Anotherminion1
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Your recipe says 3 cups. Not 1.5 cup. 1 cup = 250 mL. 3 cups x 250 mL = 750 mL. Weight is not the same as volume. You should have used cups/mL. You don’t say what weight until you used. I am worried that that your product is not safe.
(I don’t have anything to say about the canning process and possible issues there BUT next time you want to use weight over volumetric measurements of ingredients in a recipe, King Arthur Baking has an ingredient weight chart on their site
https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/learn/ingredient-weight-chart )
Here’s an image of what I’m fairly sure your recipe looks like made by a blogger, I think it looks fine. 💚
https://www.shepaused4thought.com/cranberry-chutney/