I have a large pot of old fashioned plum sauce on the bubble. Lovely neighbour sharing the bounty of her heavy trees.

Another neighbour has checked out all the stores for glass bottles - and the shelves are empty..

Could the sauce be kept in ice cream containers in the interim?

Alternately, would plastic vinegar bottles be okay?

Funny how you just presume things will be available, until they are not!

Would appreciate your advice.

Thanks

Glass bottles are best Ali - don't forget wine bottles

Regards,

Barbara Anne

Of course, thanks Barbara Anne.

Hubby has offered to “drink like mad”. What a hero!

Have you thought of trying op shops? I recycle all of my jars and bottles through my local ones and they always seem to have a good stock of them.
Lynne2

Also, if you have a local FaceBook chat page, ask the question there: Has anyone got any jam or other relevant size jars? I think you will find several members wit!h just what you want, and probably free!

If you have Agee preserving jars and corresponding preserving lids and screw rings, I have used them when I'm short on bottles and just transfer the sauce into a bottle or two when needed.
Regards,
Dawn.

It'll be too late because you have your plum sauce bubbling on the stove already but I'll comment that I really appreciate wide-necked bottles for things like tomato sauce and plum sauce. It makes it so much easier to get the sauce out. You can get them from Briscoes:
[www.briscoes.co.nz]
but they're expensive and I've found the lids don't last (they tend to get rust spots). You can now buy new packs of replaceable lids these days but, anyway, I looked around for alternatives and ended up buying some fabulous sauce bottles from Arthur Holmes. They also have the Briscoes-type ones for a much better price.
[arthurholmes.co.nz]
They have pretty much any container and lid type you could wish for, for very reasonable prices.
[arthurholmes.co.nz]

I love plum sauce and made a small quantity last week with omega plums given to me. I have used Arthur Holmes for jars/bottles, they are located in Wellington.

Thank you everyone. In the end we used a very eclectic collection of a gin bottle, a French jam jar with the checkered lid, some instant coffee jars and various others we found.

Next time I will be more prepared!