Jars topped with colourful printed linen covers beside lemons and a pan of lemon and mustard seed chutney ingredients
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Lemon & Mustard Seed Chutney Recipe with Linen Jar Covers

This lemon and mustard seed chutney is full of zingy flavour and lovely served with cheese and crackers. It also makes a thoughtful homemade gift, finished with one of our colourful linen jar covers.

Below, you'll find the ingredients and step-by-step method, along with a few ways we use our washable covers around the kitchen.

Reusable Linen Covers for Jars and Small Bowls

Our small reusable linen bowl and jar covers are made using fabric offcuts from larger projects, helping us reduce fabric waste while making something practical and beautiful.

Handprinted linen small bowl covers suitable for bowls, jars, jugs and glasses from Helen Round

I find them useful for covering ramekins, tiny bowls, jam jars and jugs. I've even put them over glasses of homemade lemonade. Because they are washable, they can be used again and again.

Lemon & Mustard Seed Chutney Recipe

This zingy chutney is good to make in the autumn or whenever there are lots of lemons available. The recipe comes from the Allotment Garden website.

Allow about 10 hours for the salted lemons to stand before cooking.

Ingredients

  • 3 unwaxed lemons
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 3 onions
  • 300ml cider vinegar
  • 1 tsp allspice or mixed spice
  • 2 tbsp yellow mustard seeds
  • 225g sugar
  • 50g raisins

Lemon & Mustard Seed Chutney, all ingredients in the pan, ready to boil up

Method

  1. Chop the lemons into chunks, remove the seeds and place in a bowl with the salt. Cover and set aside for about 10 hours.
  2. In a heavy-bottomed saucepan combine the salted lemons with the onions, finely diced, vinegar, spices, mustard seeds, sugar and raisins.
  3. Bring to a boil and simmer for 50 minutes or until the lemons are soft.
  4. Ladle into sterilised jam jars, seal, label and store in a cool, dark place until ready to use. Great with cheese!

A Homemade Chutney Gift

A jar of this yummy chutney, topped with one of our linen jar covers, plus some cheese and crackers would make a delicious homemade present for a birthday or Christmas.

Jam Jars containing chutney covered with handprinted linen small bowl covers from Helen Round

For gift presentation, add your fabric cover over the sealed jar, not in place of its preserving lid.

More Ways to Use Your Linen Covers

I attended a fermenting course which introduced me to kefir and kombucha making, and I've found these small covers useful in my kitchen too. Follow the covering instructions for your particular fermentation recipe.

Fermenting Kombucha & Kefir with Handprinted Linen Jar Covers from Helen Round

Glass jar topped with a grey printed linen cover beside an assortment of colourful fabric covers

If you like our small covers, you may also enjoy our medium and large bowl covers for salads, rising bread dough or dried fruit soaking for a cake.

Large Duck Egg Blue Bowl Cover from the Garden Collection by Helen Round

Explore our reusable linen bowl cover collection for more sizes and designs.

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