Mrs HS Ball's Extra Hot Chutney
What the bottle says...
Prepared from the very best South African products.
What we say...
The bottle doesn't give much away so we did a bit of research...
'The name chutney was adopted from a Hindi word in India, chatni, meaning 'made from fresh fruit and spices". Used mainly as a marinade and a table sauce, undoubtably the most famous South African Chutney is Mrs Balls.
In 1865 Mrs. Ball was born as Amelia Alice Elizabeth Adkins in Fort Jackson, East London, the same town where her Canadian parents were stranded in 1852 on their way to Australia. According to records her father, Henry James Adkins, captain of the SS Quanza, and his wife, Sarah Spalding, left the coastal town, Nova Scotia in Canada for Australia. Although the boat was lost off the coast of East London, fortunately for future generations of South Africans, the captain, his wife and her chutney recipe survived.
It was here that their daughter, Amelia Adkins, was born thirteen years later. She married Herbert Saddleton Ball in Fort Jackson, and was thereafter known as Mrs. Ball. Both Mrs. Ball and her sister, Florence received the secret chutney recipe from their mother, who in turn got it from her mother.
Mrs. Ball started making the chutney after she moved to Johannesburg with her husband and seven children. Her friends and family loved it so much that the business started blossoming on its own. The demand increased; Mrs Ball cooked and her husband bottled.
Home Industries started selling her chutney and by 1918 she sold about 24 bottles a day, which in the years to come grew to 8,000 bottles a day.
They settled in Plumstead (where her husband took over the chutney cooking). He died in 1935 and she moved to Fish Hoek where she continued to make chutney in her backyard with the help of her grandson, "Uncle Bob" '
...and the rest as they say is history.
Country of Origin: South Africa
Ingredients: sugar, water, vinegar, peaches, apricots, chillies, modified maize starch, salt, worcestershire sauce, colour
470g Bottle
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