A few years ago, I made a batch of this delicious italian condiment, from a recipe in (I think) Cuisine Magazine. It has dried apricots and other dried fruits in it, with honey, white wine vinegar, mustard powder, wholegrain mustard and seeds, lemon juice, garlic, and maybe other ingredients. While fairly hot, it isn't overly so, and it was a great pairing with cold meats and ham.
Alas, when I went to make it again this year, I've lost the recipe. There are plenty of recipes out there that use sugar to sweeten the mostardo, but honey gave it that extra belt of flavour. I'm pretty sure that the recipe I used was from a "late-in-the-year" issue of Cuisine Magazine or similar from at least 10 years ago, and was contributed by one of the celebrity chefs from that time. I know it's a long shot, but does anyone have the recipe?
If I can't find the original, I've found one I can use, substituting honey for the sugar, so all is not lost, but the original recipe was so succulent and delicious that I'd rather use that if I could.
Thanks in advance.

punkinthefirst - 2019-11-23 14:46:00

There is a couple of grape recipes on foodlovers.co.nz in the forum https://forum.foodlovers.co.nz/read.php?3,227537

malcovy - 2019-11-23 19:16:00

The recipe I want is made from a lot of different dried fruits (apricots, figs, pears, peaches, etc,) loads of mustard and mustard seeds, wine vinegar, and quite a lot of honey. I don't like figs much, so substituted dried pineapple, mango and papaya (not one of which is Italian, LOL). I was supposed to give some of it as Christmas presents, but it was so good I greedily kept it all for myself. A really well-flavoured grape would work, though.
I'm still hoping that someone has hung on to their old foodie magazines....

Edited by punkinthefirst at 8:08 pm, Sun 24 Nov

punkinthefirst - 2019-11-24 20:06:00

Maybe email the mag to see if they still have it and could send it to you - or point you in the right direction as to where to find it. Worth a try.
Good luck!

nzhel - 2019-11-25 09:16:00

nzhel wrote:

Maybe email the mag to see if they still have it and could send it to you - or point you in the right direction as to where to find it. Worth a try.
Good luck!

If only i could remember which one it was. I only THINK it was "Cuisine". I was hoping that someone else had made the recipe! Ah, well......

punkinthefirst - 2019-11-27 14:59:00

Is this it? From Dish.

https://dish.co.nz/recipes/mostardo-di-cremona-italian-musta
rd-fruits

davidt4 - 2019-11-27 15:43:00

davidt4 wrote:

Is this it? From Dish.

https://dish.co.nz/recipes/mostardo-di-cremona-italian-musta
rd-fruits

Fairly close. I think that's the recipe I decided to use if I couldn't find the original, but substituting honey for sugar ( 1 cup honey equals 1 1/4 cups sugar, and reduce other liquid by 1/2 cup).
It is a truly delicious "bit on the side" to have around at Christmas, that takes cold ham, chicken,cheese, etc to new levels. I'm salivating just thinking about it! I believe that it is also chopped finely and mixed with pumpkin puree to make a filling for ravioli.

Edited by punkinthefirst at 10:48 pm, Wed 27 Nov

punkinthefirst - 2019-11-27 22:35:00