• 2lb runner beans sliced thinly
• 11/2 lb onions sliced
• 11/2 lb demera sugar
• 11/2 pts vinegar (I use white wine vinegar)
• 11/2 tspn salt
• 1 tspn dry mustard
• 11/2 Tbspn turmeric
• 2Tbspn cornflour

Cook beans for seven minutes in salt water and strain. Chop onion and boil in half pint of vinegar for ten minutes. Mix all together, except cornflour, and cook slowly for half an hour. Mix cornflour with a little vinegar to a smooth paste and stir into chutney and cook for 10 minutes. Pot.

Jane Akester, was Stephens wife. We started Megapesca with David Elliott, Gowan MacAlister and Stephen Akester. Tragically Jane who gave me this brilliant recipe fell from some scaffolding whilst repainting her house and was killed, when she was in her late 40s. So enjoy your cheese and pickle sandwich and raise your glass to her occassionaly whilst doing so