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Mansefield Park farmers market: Just Add Chilli

Meanwhile back in the world of delis and home cooking, one indication that you find a lot more than spuds and home-made tablet at the Mansefield Park farmers market is a stall selling the Just Add Chilli range of home-made condiment created by the estimable Mrs Susan McCann, who insisted on giving me a couple of jars to try as I was writing about her product anyway.

?They? said it was fantastic ? and so do I. All natural ingredients, secret recipe (involves fresh strawberries), shelf life of 35 weeks … it?s either (or both) a relish or a convenience cookery aid. You can put it in a chilli, of course, but it?s also great with salads, or on oatcakes ? and perhaps particularly with cheese.

Mrs McCann was more or less badgered by her family into making her chilli recipe a business proposition and after fulfilling all the statutory requirements her home kitchen is now a fully-authorised catering kitchen ? one in which the cupboards are inevitably choc-a-bloc with neatly stacked jars of Just Add Chilli.

Interestingly there?s no modern convenience aid to process the actual chillies, and Mrs McCann ? who visits the fruit market most days at an ungodly hour for her supplies ? has to chop up the chillies by hand, stripping out the fiery seeds.

There?s a Mild version, a Wild version and ? just for all those people for whom no chilli ever seems to be hot enough ? there?s soon to be an Extreme version. It gets my vote. I?m half way through the second jar already.

Apart from farmers markets you?ll find Just Add Chilli in quality stores like Peckham?s.

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