IKEA got me in a pickle

Now our rubbish summer here is over, (well lets face it we've had oooh 2 good days in April).
It's about that time of year to make some home-made Piccalilli (Mustard Pickle). It's heaps better than the shop bought stuff.
Plus the fact you can give it out as Christmas pressies!

I usually use my old kilner jars but I'd used them for other things, so I decided to use the cheaper version we bought from IKEA last year.
Last year they worked perfectly. This year not so. Three of them broke as we were closing them. Moral of the story-you get what you pay for!

I use a combination of three recipes for this. Reason being Baz likes loads of cauliflower in his and insists on it being crunchy. I like marrow in mine. So everyone ends up with exactly what they want.

After spending a couple of hours Sunday morning quite happily peeling and chopping the vegetables in the kitchen a "Baz person" appears with his law of physics and displacement theory for my veg and the amount of liquid that goes in the jars!
So we then end up with an experiment going on in the middle of kitchen.

He reckons if you put a shallot in a full bowl of water the amount of water that spills out will not weigh the same as the shallot, therefore my measurements wouldn't be right.
After 5 minutes I asked him politely to leave in the nicest possible way!!
Who cares if you get 1 tablespoon of liquid over?

I actually change this recipe every time I make it. It all depends on what vegetables I can get at the time.
This year's piccalilli turned out just fine.

It takes about three months to mature but I know we'll be tasting as the weeks roll on.