| THEY TELL me it is a limited edition for Lent, in spite of its proving so popular. The “Pickling Pair”, Carol Ratcliffe (above, right) and Brenda Lyon, have been making apple, pear, and apricot chutney to their own recipe, to raise money for a children’s hospice in the African diocese linked with their own diocese of Blackburn.
They are both vicars’ wives, and have been friends and pickling partners for years. They make chutney, jam, and marmalade — “If it grows, we will do something with it,” Mrs Lyon told me.
They have mostly been making it to raise funds for their own churches, Mrs Lyon at St Peter’s, Accrington, and Mrs Ratcliffe at St Paul’s, Oswaldtwistle, but decided that during Lent they would raise funds for a charity. A fan of their chutney is Christine Reade, the wife of the Bishop of Blackburn, the Rt Revd Nicholas Reade, and it was she who suggested the Sunflower Hospice in Free State diocese. |
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